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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.

Janis Joplin

They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Behind Charging Coming Man Musician Sound Threw
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
JANIS JOPLIN

Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLIN

Describe Inside Singing Something Talk
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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Call People Point Someone Touch
.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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Getting Gonna Keep Now Today Twenty Year
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Anything Better Decide Maybe Trouble Want
I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Mine Single Tomorrow Trade Yesterday
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Application Believe Equality Experience People Test Truly Twin
When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLIN

Being First Love Music Point Sex Sing
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLIN

Alone Fake Home Loneliness Lonely People Thousandm World
I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLIN

Bad Good Passion Peace Quiet Rather Sing Sound
The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
JANIS JOPLIN

Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Anything Brain Man Minute Sort Switch
You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLIN

Better Compromise Got Happen Honesty
Like 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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beautiful Conscious Fat Girl Leg Man Most Self Shaped Short
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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Black False Myth People Racism Soul Stuck Themselves White

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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