And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
JANIS JOPLINYou’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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