You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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