If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
JANIS JOPLINI 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..
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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 got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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You 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.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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