I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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You got to get it while you can.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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