You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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