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 JOPLINYou better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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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?
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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