People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLINI don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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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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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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 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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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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