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-
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
-
-
Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLIN -
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
JANIS JOPLIN -
That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLIN -
My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN -
And 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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLIN