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 JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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