You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINWhen everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I 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..
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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