Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
JANIS JOPLINI won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
-
-
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLIN -
The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
JANIS JOPLIN -
Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLIN -
It’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 JOPLIN -
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLIN -
That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
JANIS JOPLIN -
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
JANIS JOPLIN -
As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
JANIS JOPLIN -
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLIN -
If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
JANIS JOPLIN -
This 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 JOPLIN -
All 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 JOPLIN -
I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
JANIS JOPLIN