You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
JANIS JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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