Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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I 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.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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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And 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.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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