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?’
JANIS JOPLIN
I 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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.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 always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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 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 would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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