I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all… — Janis Joplin Copy Share
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. — Janis Joplin Copy Share
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy,… — Janis Joplin Copy Share
All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it.… — Janis Joplin Copy Share
If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day. — Janis Joplin Copy Share
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… — Janis Joplin Copy Share
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… — Janis Joplin Copy Share
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it. — Janis Joplin Copy Share
