At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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