Janis Joplin Quotes

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

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

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

You got to get it while you can.

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.

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

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.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

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

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.

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

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

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

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

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

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

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.

I love being a star more than life itself.

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

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

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.

Now that I'm here where am I?

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

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