You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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’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?
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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