My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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It’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.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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