Janis Joplin Quotes

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it ... I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to have a party while I'm on this earth ... I'm gettin' it now, today. I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me ... man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE ...

Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Little Girl Blue"

Sit there, hmm, count your fingers.
What else, what else is there to do ?
Oh and I know how you feel,
I know you feel that you're through.
Oh wah wah ah sit there, hmm, count,
Ah, count your little fingers,
My unhappy oh little girl, little girl blue, yeah.

Oh sit there, oh count those raindrops
Oh, feel 'em falling down, oh honey all around you.
Honey don't you know it's time,
I feel it's time,
Somebody told you 'cause you got to know
That all you ever gonna have to count on
Or gonna wanna lean on
It's gonna feel just like those raindrops do
When they're falling down, honey, all around you.
Oh, I know you're unhappy.

Oh sit there, ah go on, go on
And count your fingers.
I don't know what else, what else
Honey have you got to do.
And I know how you feel,
And I know you ain't got no reason to go on
And I know you feel that you must be through.
Oh honey, go on and sit right back down,
I want you to count, oh count your fingers,
Ah my unhappy, my unlucky
And my little, oh, girl blue.
I know you're unhappy,
Ooh ah, honey I know,
Baby I know just how you feel.

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I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.

All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

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

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all ... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And 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.

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

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. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.

The more you live, the less you die.

This 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, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I ... that was on inside of me and not play games ...

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle
[expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

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?

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. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

tomorrow never happens. it's the same fucking day, man.

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers,

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

I 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.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.

You are what you settle for.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.