I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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