I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
JANIS JOPLINIf you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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