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 JOPLINOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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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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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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