You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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You got to get it while you can.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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