Janice Joplin Quotes

The strange thing about Janice Joplin is that she could look incredibly vulnerable on stage. That is, until she had a mike in her hand and started to sing. Once she started singing she put her whole life into each and every song. It was a remarkable transformation.
Each song was her life! ~ Karl Wiggins

He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn't John Lennon that taught people about love and peaceful resistance - that job fell on the shoulders of a Jewish carpenter. ~ Glenn Beck

Janice Joplin was uninhibited and raw, a combination which when blended with her stormy and tempestuous lifestyle was irresistible ~ Karl Wiggins

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. ~ Janis Joplin

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. ~ Janis Joplin

...the only way to happiness is to find people with whom you can eat, drink and laugh. That is everything ~ Janice Macleod

Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world. ~ Janice Dickinson

You saved Hal's wife, why not my wife? Why not Janice? WHY NOT MY JANICE? ~ Stephen King

There are good ships and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships, and may they always be. ~ Janice Thompson

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

The whole point is that time passes. That things fade. He is already hard to remember. Look, I used to cry because I thought I'd forget. Then I knew that was ridiculous and cried because I remembered. But the truth is that one is the same as the other. Remembering and forgetting are the same bloody thing. He is not alive any more. That's all there is to know. There is no purpose to any of it. The point is there is no point. ~ Janice Galloway

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle. ~ Janice Dickinson

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

She remembers that when she first moved here, a woman who had been in Hong Kong for six years had confided plaintively: I feel like my real life is on pause. It's nice here, and I like all the help and the vacations, but I'm ready now. I'm ready to resume my real life, and now all I feel like I'm doing is waiting. ~ Janice Y.K. Lee

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

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic. ~ Janice Erlbaum

I have been shaped by my mistakes and disappointments - just as I have been shaped by my successes. ~ Janice Dickinson

If you fall then that's not all ... if you wish to be down then stay down ... if you wish to be up then get up. ~ Janice Markowitz

That's the beginning of how it all changes. We become survivors or not. ~ Janice Y.K. Lee

We just have to sort through the junk. You know, like organising a jumbled box of beads. All we have to do is put each piece in its proper place, and we'll be able to see what we have. ~ Janice Peacock

On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now. ~ Janice Kaplan

Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose is a masterful work of classic small-town fiction. ~ Janice Daugharty

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers, ~ Janis Joplin

I was in awe of him. I didn't speak; I listened. He was flawless. ~ Janice Dickinson

I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now you had two numbers until you were ninety-nine. And it wasn't true. Growing up was just more of the same but taller. What happened was all luck. There was no logic. ~ Janice Galloway

Ignore everything people say about you. Just live life the way you feel is good. As long as you feel fabulous. ~ Janice Liang

I was shaped by my mistakes. ~ Janice Dickinson

Coyote: A small canid (Canis latrans) native to western North America that is closely related to the American wolf and whose cry has often been compared to that of Sippie Wallace and Janis Joplin, amongst others. ~ Sherman Alexie

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is. ~ Janice Dickinson

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism ... such a talent was Janis Joplin. ~ Clive Davis

They'll be working through until it's done, so Janice has gone to KFC for a bargain bucket. They're dining al desko. ~ Christopher Fowler

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

When I offer hospitality, something amazing happens--so much more than I have anything to do with. An exchange takes place. Our guests bring who they are with them and enlarge our lives in their offerings. ~ Janice Peterson

This alpha dog is not going to take it lying down next time. ~ Janice Dickinson

Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you. ~ Janice Macleod

Monsters,' she said., 'of course my brain has them.' As long as they stayed in there, everything would be all right. Wouldn't it? ~ Gwenda Bond

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. ~ Demetri Martin

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

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft. ~ Janice Dickinson

I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating. ~ Janice Dickinson

I guess Danello can stab her if he has to."
Danello nodded. "I'm willing to do it even if I don't have to. ~ Janice Hardy

Draw a monster. Why is it a monster? ~ Janice Lee

Without gay men, I am nothing. ~ Janice Dickinson

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers. ~ Stevie Nicks

You have a heart as open as the sky. It is rare, and i am touched. ~ Janice Pariat

people made their own heaven or hell on earth. ~ Janice Cantore

You are what you settle for. ~ Janis Joplin