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Janis Joplin is singing with Big Brother in the Panhandle and almost everybody is high and it is a pretty nice Sunday afternoon. — Joan Didion

Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand? — Janis Joplin

When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic. — 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 to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. — Janis Ian

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied. — Janis Ian

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

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. — Eddie Money

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me. — Janis Ian

Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I'm talking about, I knew Janis. — Roger Daltrey

If I was mad, it was in this, that I had believed such a possession would protect me from the assassin. — Janis Cooke Newman

Life is like a shit sandwich, the more bread you have the less shit you have to eat. — Gary Jonathan Janis

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer. — Janis Ian

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

The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value whatsoever. — Janis Karpinski

Sit quietly and open up to spirit. — Sharon Janis

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can. — 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

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism ... such a talent was Janis Joplin. — Clive Davis

I'm not really thinking much ... Just sort of, trying to feel. — Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? — Janis Joplin

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly. — Janis Joplin

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once? — Janis Joplin

I adore Janis Joplin, who sixties herself to death. — Caitlin Moran

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that? — Janis Joplin

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet. — Janis Joplin

Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man. — Janis Joplin

Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything. — Janis Joplin

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life. — Janis Joplin

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free. — Janis Ian

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good. — Janis Joplin

I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice. — Brittany Howard

Janis was completely caught off guard that Lisa finally stood up for herself — John Corey Whaley

You got to get it while you can — Janis Joplin

I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers, — Janis Joplin

A friend of mine once told me 'For people like us, the meaning is the search for the meaning. — Janis Ian

The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head. — Shawn Amos

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me. — Janis Ian

The more you live, the less you die. — 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

Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got. — Janis Joplin

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there. — Janis Ian

I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers. — Stevie Nicks

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. — Janis Ian

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

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

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. — Janis Ian

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well. — Janis Ian

Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart. — Scott Simon

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

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. — Janis Joplin

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record. — Janis Ian

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

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. — Natalie Cole

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for — Janis Joplin

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

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

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you. — Janis Joplin

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? — Janis Joplin

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am. — Janis Ian

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. — Janis Joplin

I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous. — Janis Karpinski

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me. — Janis Ian

You are what you settle for. — 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 just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about. — Janis Joplin

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

She's cute. In a weird, Janis Joplin, will probably die at twenty-seven kind of way. — Krystal Sutherland

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking. — Janis Ian

One of the fundamental missions of a family business is to pass the business to subsequent generations. — Janis Raye

I love being a star more than life itself. — Janis Joplin

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis. — Kris Kristofferson

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs — Janis Joplin

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music. — Janis Joplin

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers. — Janis Ian

I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys. — Dennis Rodman

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin. — Maurice Gibb

The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin. — Patti Smith

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone. — Janis Ian

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer. — Janis Joplin

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has. — Janis Ian

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one. — Janis Ian

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11. — Janis Ian

It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it! — Janis Joplin

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs. — Janis Ian

Where's your dog?' I ask quickly. 'Dawn said you had a dog. Let's take the dog out.'
'There ain't no dog,' replies Janis. — Carla H. Krueger

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. — Demetri Martin

Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis following disclosure. — Janis Tyler Johnson

You can safely assume you've remade God in your own image when it turns out God hates the same people you do. Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird — Janis Bragan Balda

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 think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me. — Patti LuPone

I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed. — Janis Karpinski

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person. — B.B. King

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. — Janis Ian

I think I think too much. That's why I drink! — Janis Joplin

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got. — Janis Joplin

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. — Janis Ian

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

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