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I can't talk about my singing;...

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Janis Joplin 112 quotes

People, whether they know it o...

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

Janis Joplin 112 quotes

If you can get them once, man,...

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-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

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All my life I just wanted to b...

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. Except 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. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe

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I read a story about some old ...

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' 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. 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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I gotta go on doin' it the way...

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...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...man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.

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I want a bigger band with high...

I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE...

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I started out to be a person o...

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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Like most girls I'm always rea...

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

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To be true to myself, to be th...

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

Janis Joplin 112 quotes

It's hard to be free but when ...

It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

Janis Joplin 112 quotes

Honey, if you've had your eye ...

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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This whole thing that's happen...

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games...

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It used to make me unhappy, al...

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... 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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What we've had to do is learn ...

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.

Janis Joplin 112 quotes

Singing, it's like it's like l...

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Janis Joplin 112 quotes

When everything is together - ...

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

Janis Joplin 112 quotes

Wait a minute, maybe I can do ...

Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.

Janis Joplin 112 quotes

I think I think too much. That...

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

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I'm tired of all these hippie ...

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

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