Janis Joplin Quotes - Page 3

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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

  People, Singers, Miserable

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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

  Singing, I Can

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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

  Texas, Games, Play

  Song: Albert Hall Interview

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• I love being a star more than life itself.

  Janis Joplin

  Stars, Love Is, Fame

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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.

  Janis Joplin

  Moving, Simple, Rocks

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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

  Artist, Want, Stewardess

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• You got to get it while you can.

  Janis Joplin

  Title of song (1971)

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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

  Real, Men, Thinking

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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

  Girl, Stars, Men

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• Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

  Janis Joplin

  Materialism, Lord, Benz

  "Mercedes-Benz" (song) (1970)

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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

  Years, Twenties, Sound

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• Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

  Janis Joplin

  Mr Right, Finding Love, Looks

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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.

  Janis Joplin

  Mouths, Like You, Heavy

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• At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

  Janis Joplin

  Nouns, Objects, Knows

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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

  Porsche, Lord, Benz

  "Mercedes-Benz" (song) (1970)

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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

  Eye, Trying, Pieces

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• Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

  Janis Joplin

  Thinking, Destroying, Enjoy

  "The last party" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2004.

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• Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

  Janis Joplin

  Girl, Hippie, Might

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• You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

  Janis Joplin

  Home, Tired, Play

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• Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

  Janis Joplin

  Humorous, Beer, Bottles

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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.

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  Texas, People, Arthur

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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

  Mother, New York, Winning

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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

  Song, Singing, Over It

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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

  Thinking, Ems, Chicks

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

  Janis Joplin

  Boss, Magic, Together

  "On the Road with Janis Joplin". Book by John Byrne Cooke, 2014.

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