It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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 can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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