I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of? — 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
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount… — 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
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like… — 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
