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.
JANIS JOPLINI gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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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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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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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.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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