All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLINI started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging 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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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 story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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.
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