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 always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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