I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLINI’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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You got to get it while you can.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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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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