That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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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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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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