I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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 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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You are what you settle for.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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