Janis Joplin Quotes

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

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.

The more you live, the less you die.

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

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

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

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

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.

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.

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

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

You are what you settle for.

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

I'm one of those regular weird people.

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

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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

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

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

I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

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

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

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?

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

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

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

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

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

Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

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

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

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 tired of all these hippie jack-offs

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

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

Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.

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

Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.

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

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

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