Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLINThey 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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.
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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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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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