Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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…
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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You are what you settle for.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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