You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINI won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
-
-
I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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
JANIS JOPLIN -
Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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 JOPLIN -
My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLIN -
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLIN -
Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN






