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 JOPLINAnd I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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You got to get it while you can.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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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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