Janis Joplin Quotes

At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.

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.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

I love being a star more than life itself.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

You are what you settle for.

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.

I'm one of those regular weird people.

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

The more you live, the less you die.

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?