That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINI can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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