American - Musician | January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970
You got to get it while you can.
Janis Joplin
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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.
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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.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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