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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.

Janis Joplin

I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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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 got to get it while you can.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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’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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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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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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.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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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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