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.
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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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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’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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