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 JOPLINI gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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