I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINI can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLINIf 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 JOPLINWait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLINAs good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
JANIS JOPLINMan, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLINI believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINOh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLINI just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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 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 JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLIN