If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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