Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You got to get it while you can.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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