Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINMy business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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 gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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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.
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You are what you settle for.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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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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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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