If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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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 started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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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’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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You 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.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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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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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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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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