Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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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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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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