Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINThey 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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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.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I 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..
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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