I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
JANIS JOPLINIf I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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You are what you settle for.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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