At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
JANIS JOPLINIf you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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.
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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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