I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You got to get it while you can.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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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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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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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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