You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINI would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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They 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.
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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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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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You are what you settle for.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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