I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
JANIS JOPLINI’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
JANIS JOPLINI love being a star more than life itself.
JANIS JOPLINWhen I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLINI don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
JANIS JOPLINMan, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLINFreedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLINTo be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
JANIS JOPLINI just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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 JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
JANIS JOPLINI’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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 JOPLINI’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLIN