Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINIf I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
JANIS JOPLINI believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINThe older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLINThey threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLINThey 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 JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINDon’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
JANIS JOPLINI talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLINGuess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
JANIS JOPLINTo be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
JANIS JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
JANIS JOPLIN