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 JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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