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.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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 someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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 are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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