I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and… — 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 I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band.… — Janis Joplin Copy Share
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
