I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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 read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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