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 JOPLINAll my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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 got to get it while you can.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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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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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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