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 always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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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