You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINI started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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