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 JOPLINTo be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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