Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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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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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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