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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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’m one of those regular weird people.
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