Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLINAnd 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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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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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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