I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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 love being a star more than life itself.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need 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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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