When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINYou better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLINI started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLINPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for.
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.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLINIt’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 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 JOPLINBeing an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLINGimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
JANIS JOPLINYou can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINWhen everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLIN