My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINI’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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