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 JOPLINI 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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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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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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