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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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 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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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