All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLINI can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
More Janis Joplin Quotes
-
-
Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I’m one of those regular weird people.
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 -
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLIN -
You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLIN -
And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLIN -
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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 are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
JANIS JOPLIN -
.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 destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLIN -
My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
JANIS JOPLIN