Quotes By Janis Joplin

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.

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

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

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

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 got to get it while you can.

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle, maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

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

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

I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

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

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.