Quotes by Janis Joplin - Page 2

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Believe
People
Tests
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I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
Janis Joplin / Singer
Singing
Inside
Describe
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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Benz
Lord
Porsche
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Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Experience
Love
Music
Emotional
Loving Someone
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
Janis Joplin / Singer
Girl
Men
Stars
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
Janis Joplin / Singer
Sound
Twenties
Years
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Holding Back
Holding On
Sometimes
Time Good Sometimes
Hold
Rather
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Chicks
Ems
Thinking
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I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Sitting
Watching Tv
Years
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
Janis Joplin / Singer
Over It
Singing
Song
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Miserable
People
Singers
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Artist
Chicks
Stewardess
Want
Wanted
Read
Whatever
Painted
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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?
Janis Joplin / Singer
Bullshit
Mad
Settling
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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Black
Myth
People
Racism
Soul
Stuck
White
Black People Feel
Themselves
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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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Essence
Loses
Perspective
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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Outrageous
People
Texas
Want
People Always Your
Ok
Quietly
Settle
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All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Band
Decided
Rock And Roll
Wanted
Anything
Anything Else
Else
Front
Rock
Sudden
Threw
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Breakdown
Distance
Sacrifice
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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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Kids
Confusion
Hurt
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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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Believe
Get Better
Hippie
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Arthur
Beatnik
People
Port
Texas
Good People Never
Badly
Good Treat People
Neither
Treat
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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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Eye
Pieces
Trying
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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Ambition
Desperate
Looking
Much
Lots
Around
Been
Loved
How Much
Noticed
Positions
Quest
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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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Ladders
Rocks
Want
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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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Girl
Men
Beautiful
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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 / Singer
Bullshit
Games
Play
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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], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.
Janis Joplin / Singer
New York
Mother
Winning
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You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Fighting
Problem
Want
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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... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Feelings
Soul
Unhappy
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin / Singer
Women
Home
Lonely
Strong Women
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I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
Janis Joplin / Singer
My Own
Unhappy
Used
Victim
Wanted
Now
Work Time Me
Feeling
Learned
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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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Important
Singers
Singing
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When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Music
Audience
Being In Love
First Time
Sex
Two
Whole
Love Time People
Touch
Love Time Sex
Call
Chills
Gigantic
Point
Sing
Two People
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Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Franklin
Holiday
Milk
Notes
Singing
Subtle
Universe
Aretha
Maybe
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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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Games
Play
Texas
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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. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Heavy
Like You
Mouths
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I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. 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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Moving
Rocks
Simple
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] 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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
How You Feel
Loving Someone
Silence
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Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Happiness
Conversation
Misery
Polite
Time Yourself Feel
Inside
Yourself
Feel
Aside
Those
Letting
Necessarily
Push
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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...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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Men
Party
Years
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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.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Men
Rock And Roll
Thinking
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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?
Janis Joplin / Singer
Men
Real
Thinking
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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. 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 that's the trouble.
Janis Joplin / Singer
Men
Beer
Couple
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