You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLINYou can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
JANIS JOPLINWhen everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLINIf someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLINThis whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
JANIS JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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 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 JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINLike most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLINLike, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
JANIS JOPLINThe more you live, the less you die.
JANIS JOPLINI just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLINIt used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
JANIS JOPLINYou 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