I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLINThey threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You are what you settle for.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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