At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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-
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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