Janis Joplin
24 quotes
Biography
"Music’s for grooving man, and music’s not for puttin’ yourself through bad changes, y’know? I mean, you don’t have to go take anybody’s shit, man, just to like music, y’know what I mean? You don’t. So... so if you’re getting’ more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y’know, it’s just music. Music’s... music's s’posed to be different than that."
"Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week."
"Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man."
"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends"
"You know you got it if it makes you feel good."
"Singer Janis Joplin, who in 1968 was screeching out her voice with a California group called , said that she was not a hippie, because hippies believed in trying to make the world better. Instead she said she was a : "Beatniks believe things aren't going to get better and say, 'The hell with it,' stay stoned, and have a good time.""
"You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things."
"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone."
"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone."
"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house."
"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone."
"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone."
"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers."
"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. 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."
"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time."
"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. 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."
"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?"
"You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for"
"Now that I'm here where am I?"
"Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it."
"Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something."
"I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love."
"On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people then I go home alone."
"I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me."