When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINSinging, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
-
-
I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLIN -
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
JANIS JOPLIN -
I’m one of those regular weird people.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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 -
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 -
I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
JANIS JOPLIN -
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLIN -
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLIN -
You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
JANIS JOPLIN






