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.
JANIS JOPLINLike 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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If 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-
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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