If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLINThey asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You are what you settle for.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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