Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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You got to get it while you can.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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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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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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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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