You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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 got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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.
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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 see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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