If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLINYou have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You are what you settle for.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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All 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.
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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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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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The more you live, the less you die.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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