On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. — 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
You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things. — 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
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. — 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
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins. — 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
