Janis Joplin Quotes

I 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.

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?

Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

You got to get it while you can.

At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.

I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs

They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.