I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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?’
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You got to get it while you can.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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