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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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