You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
JANIS JOPLINI’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
More Janis Joplin Quotes
-
-
.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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLIN -
When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
JANIS JOPLIN -
If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLIN -
In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLIN -
When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN -
That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
JANIS JOPLIN