Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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 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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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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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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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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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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