I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINYou know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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