Janis Joplin Quotes

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin

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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Say

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Work
  • School
  • Lost

• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Joy

• I think much of what you learn as a kid comes before age seven.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Age
  • Think
  • Learn

• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Real
  • Dad

• Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• 3D printers give us what we've all been craving: another reason to talk to technical support. When you finally get the thing working, though, you'll be able to print out your grocery list as a cube! When you look up directions online, you can print the map out on a globe!

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • Support
  • Reason

• The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Scene

• I hope to be like Bill Gates, bro. With all the money in the world.

  

  Young Thug
  • World
  • Money
  • Hope

• Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Work
  • Single
  • Look

• Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Always
  • Masses
  • Psychic

• You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Free
  • Alone

• God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Done
  • Peace

• We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.

  

  Lawrence Summers
  • World
  • Free
  • Respect

• It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.

  

  Connie Willis
  • She
  • Light
  • Wonder

• Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Help

• Dubai has got very little oil; it is Abu Dhabi that has got the oil. Dubai has very small resources, and it is running out, so the government's plan has been to relieve Dubai of any dependency on oil at all by 2010.

  

  Maurice Flanagan
  • Small
  • Running

• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  

  C. Wagner
  • History
  • Knowledge
  • Violence

• If I can make a connection, one connection, to any one listener in the world, I consider that successful.

  

  Wynonna Judd
  • World
  • Connection

• Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Money
  • Advice
  • Problems

• Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

  

  Janis Joplin