I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
Interpretation
The relationship between a performer and their audience is reciprocal and vital.
In this quote, Janis Joplin emphasizes the interconnectedness between herself as a performer and the audience. She recognizes that her emotional and artistic expression relies on their presence and engagement, while they, in turn, find connection and meaning in her performance. This mutual need highlights the intimacy and importance of shared experiences in the realm of live music and art.
In practice
This quote can be used when discussing the power of live performances at a music workshop.
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.
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.
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?
TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.
It is wonderful how attractive a gentle, pleasant manner is, and how much it wins hearts.
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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