They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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You got to get it while you can.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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