Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.
Janis JoplinIt used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.
Janis JoplinWhat we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
Janis JoplinOh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Janis JoplinIf you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
Janis Joplin