It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 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 just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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You are what you settle for.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all 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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