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.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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 read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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