"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable." — Janis Joplin
"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."
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69 Quotes by Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin has 69 quotes on this site.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they…
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a…
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she…
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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…
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I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an…
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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…
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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…
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.…
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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More Audience Quotes
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
— Aaliyah
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
— Paul Auster
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
— Erykah Badu
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
— Erykah Badu
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
— Christian Bale
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
— Lucille Ball
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
— Antonio Banderas
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
— Tyra Banks
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