All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time.… — 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
I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it.… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple,… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned… — 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
