Miserable Quote by Janis Joplin Download Open image “Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.” — Janis Joplin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Miserable Singers
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time. — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears.… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about… — Alberta Hunter Copy Share Image
A lot of people think the blues is depressing but that's not the blues I'm singing. When I'm singing blues, I singing life. People… — Etta James Copy Share Image
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people. — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
People that can't stand to listen to the blues, they've got to be phonies. — Etta James Copy Share Image
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
Well, people who are blues purist types are usually the most vocal and the ones that pop up on the websites. — Jonny Lang Copy Share Image
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
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… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
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,… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it.… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
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… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
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… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt. — Gail Porter Copy Share Image
Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Another step had her backed up against the wall, and he braced his arms on both sides of her. "I'm beginning to look forward… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I didn't fit into the Christian college my parents sent me to. I felt tarnished by tragedy, between my brother's death and Escuela Caribe,… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
You've got to make a person aware of how miserable they really are and show them how happy they can be. Otherwise, why should… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
