Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINAudiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLINIf I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
JANIS JOPLINFreedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
JANIS JOPLINThis 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 JOPLINAfter they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLINDistance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
JANIS JOPLINIt’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLINYou are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLINMan, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLINI don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
JANIS JOPLINWait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
JANIS JOPLINAt least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
JANIS JOPLINI 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 JOPLINIt’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLINYou know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLIN