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.
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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 can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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