You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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 any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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