I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINMan, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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