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 JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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