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.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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 can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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