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 JOPLINI don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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