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 JOPLINI read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Like 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.
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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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You are what you settle for.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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