This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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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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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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