You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Like, 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?
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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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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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