I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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