Janis Joplin Quotes
"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
- Janis Joplin
"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Home, Love, People)
"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."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: People, Want)
"You got to get it while you can."
- Janis Joplin
"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Father)
"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Home, Love, People)
"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Love, Time, Sex, People, First)
"I'm one of those regular weird people."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: People)
"I won't quit to become someone's old lady."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Lady, Old)
"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."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Thought, People)
"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Thought, Artist, Want)
"Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: First)
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Compromise)
"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Answers, Being, Questions)
"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Audiences)
"Rock on out."
- Janis Joplin
"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time."
- Janis Joplin
(Related: Time)