I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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.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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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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