You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINAs good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
-
-
It 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…
JANIS JOPLIN -
Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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 -
I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
JANIS JOPLIN -
I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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 -
If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLIN -
They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
JANIS JOPLIN