You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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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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You are what you settle for.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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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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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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