My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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 can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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