Quotes by Janis Joplin

About Janis Joplin:

Janis Lyn Joplin was a US singer-songwriter who first rose to fame in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic/acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. Her first ever large scale public performance was at the Monterey Pop Festival; this led her to becoming very popular and one of the major attractions at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour. Joplin charted five singles; other popular songs include: "Down on Me"; "Summertime"; "Piece of My Heart"; "Ball 'n' Chain"; "Maybe"; "To Love Somebody"; "Kozmic Blues"; "Work Me, Lord"; "Cry Baby"; "Mercedes Benz"; and her only number one hit, "Me and Bobby McGee".
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

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My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.

Janis Joplin

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Janis Joplin

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

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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 to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

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

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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin

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

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

Janis Joplin

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

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You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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I'm one of those regular weird people.

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You got to get it while you can.

Janis Joplin

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.

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

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

Janis Joplin

Author Bio

  • NameJanis Joplin
  • DescriptionAmerican singer and songwriter
  • AliasesJanis Lyn Joplin
  • BornJanuary 19, 1943
  • DiedOctober 4, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Singer-songwriter; Composer; Musician
  • AwardsGrammy Lifetime Achievement Award