.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.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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 you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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