You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINI talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
-
-
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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 -
Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLIN -
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’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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 -
The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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 -
When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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 -
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