I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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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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You got to get it while you can.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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