I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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