I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLINI just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLINYou’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
JANIS JOPLINHippies 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.
JANIS JOPLINI started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLINTexas 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.
JANIS JOPLINAs good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
JANIS JOPLINLike, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLINThe 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.
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?
JANIS JOPLINYou can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
JANIS JOPLINMaybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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