Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
JANIS JOPLINLike most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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You are what you settle for.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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