People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLINI believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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 know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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