Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINIf you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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