To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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’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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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