All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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The 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.
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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 had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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