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.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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I 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.
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