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?’
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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What 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.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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