And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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