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.
JANIS JOPLINYou 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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