My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINYou 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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