Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
JANIS JOPLINWait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
JANIS JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLINI can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINExcept I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
JANIS JOPLINAfter they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLINIn my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLINOh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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.
JANIS JOPLINI read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLINIf someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINFreedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLINI’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
JANIS JOPLIN