Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINI talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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 don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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