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.
JANIS JOPLINWhy should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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