“My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?”

Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?

My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.

Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!

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.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.

I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.

That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.

All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

My heart goes out to everyone as we see the end of this year and as we anticipate the new one. We’re in this together.

We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.