Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
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… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him… — 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 Image
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
