It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINThe 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.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
-
-
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
JANIS JOPLIN -
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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 -
The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLIN -
To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
JANIS JOPLIN -
Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
JANIS JOPLIN -
When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLIN -
My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLIN -
You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLIN