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 JOPLINYou can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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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 started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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