Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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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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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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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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