I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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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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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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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