In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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 started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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