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.
Interpretation
Singing evokes an immense emotional connection, akin to the feelings of being in love.
Janis Joplin expresses how the act of singing lifts her spirit and creates a profound emotional experience. She compares this exhilaration to the initial stages of falling in love, emphasizing the deep connection and unique intimacy that arises from performing for an audience, which amplifies her feelings and generates a sense of shared experience.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech at a music event to highlight the emotional power of performance.
I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to have a party while I'm on this earth...I'm gettin' it now, today. I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me...man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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 go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth.
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
Imparadis'd in one another's arms.
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
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