I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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You are what you settle for.
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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
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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You got to get it while you can.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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