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-
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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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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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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