"Why should I hold back now and sound……" — Janis Joplin
"Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?"
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69 Quotes by Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin has 69 quotes on this site.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they…
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a…
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she…
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I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I…
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I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an…
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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…
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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…
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.…
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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