You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
JANIS JOPLINWhy should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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