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 JOPLINYou can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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