Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINAll you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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