Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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 feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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The more you live, the less you die.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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