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.
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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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