I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLINIf I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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