You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You got to get it while you can.
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