It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLINAll my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
JANIS JOPLINYou know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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 JOPLINOh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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 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 JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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 JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINI can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINIt’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLINAnd 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 JOPLINYou are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN