You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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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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.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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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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