Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLIN.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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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 asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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