After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINAnd I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You are what you settle for.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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