Janis Joplin Quotes - Page 3

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• I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

  Janis Joplin

  Quitting, Old Lady

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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

  Essence, Perspective, Loses

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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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• 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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• 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 love being a star more than life itself.

  Janis Joplin

  Stars, Love Is, Fame

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

  Janis Joplin

  Materialism, Lord, Benz

  "Mercedes-Benz" (song) (1970)

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

  Janis Joplin

  Mr Right, Finding Love, Looks

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, People, Arthur

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

  Janis Joplin

  Girl, Hippie, Might

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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