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 JOPLINThat 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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