I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINMan, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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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