I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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You are what you settle for.
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