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.
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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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You got to get it while you can.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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