They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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