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.
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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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