In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLINI started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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’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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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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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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