Janis Joplin

Rock on out.

— Janis Joplin

I love being a star more than life itself.

— Janis Joplin

Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.

— Janis Joplin

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

— Janis Joplin

Who you are is what you settle for, you know?

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I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers,

— Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for.

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I'm one of those regular weird people.

— Janis Joplin

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

— Janis Joplin

“Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”

— Janis Joplin

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

— Janis Joplin

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

— Janis Joplin

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

— Janis Joplin

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

— Janis Joplin

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

— Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

— Janis Joplin

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

— 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

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

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

(...) One of these mornings You're gonna rise, rise up singing, You're gonna spread your wings, Child, and take, take to the…

— Janis Joplin

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

— Janis Joplin

All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

— Janis Joplin

I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount…

— Janis Joplin

I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure…

— Janis Joplin

They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I…

— Janis Joplin

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go…

— Janis Joplin

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like…

— Janis Joplin

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him…

— Janis Joplin

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New…

— Janis Joplin

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you…

— Janis Joplin

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what…

— Janis Joplin

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel.…

— Janis Joplin

Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

— Janis Joplin

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

— Janis Joplin

You got to get it while you can.

— Janis Joplin

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

— Janis Joplin

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

— Janis Joplin

The more you live, the less you die.

— Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

— Janis Joplin