Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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