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.
JANIS JOPLINWhat 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for 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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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You are what you settle for.
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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