I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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 got to get it while you can.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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