Janis Joplin Quotes

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.'

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

If I couldn't act, I'd really love to try music.

But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, 'I can really sing.'

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.

I'm a lover of songs.

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

I love music; it's my passion.