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.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You are what you settle for.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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