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.
JANIS JOPLINExcept 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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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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