You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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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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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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