I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV. — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man,… — 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