When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINI read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINTo be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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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.
JANIS JOPLINAnd 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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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.
JANIS JOPLINYou 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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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLINThey threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLINThe older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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