I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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You are what you settle for.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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