I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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 would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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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 I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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