Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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