I love being a star more than life itself.
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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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