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-
JANIS JOPLINOn stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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