Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINSinging, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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You are what you settle for.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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