After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINAnd I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I 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?’
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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And 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.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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You are what you settle for.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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