Janis Joplin

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

— Janis Joplin

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

— Janis Joplin

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time.…

— Janis Joplin

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

— Janis Joplin

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me…

— Janis Joplin

“Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same fucking day, man.”

— Janis Joplin

All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that…

— Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for.

— Janis Joplin

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

— Janis Joplin

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…

— Janis Joplin

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…

— Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

— Janis Joplin

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

— Janis Joplin

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

— Janis Joplin

At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.

— Janis Joplin

Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

— Janis Joplin

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

— Janis Joplin

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

— Janis Joplin

The more you live, the less you die.

— Janis Joplin

“#305 "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."~”

— Janis Joplin

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

— Janis Joplin

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

— Janis Joplin

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

— Janis Joplin

I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

— Janis Joplin

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

— Janis Joplin