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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

To this day, there's nobody, nobody that sounds like Janice Joplin. — Clive Davis

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

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

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead. — Cyndi Lauper

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

It is never right to play ragtime fast. — Scott Joplin

HENRY JOPLIN'S PRECEPT
Don't be friends with jerks. — R.J. Palacio

One day the 'Maple Leaf' will make me King of Ragtime Composers. — Scott Joplin

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

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

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

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

Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that. — Scott Joplin

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

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

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

The more you live, the less you die. — Janis Joplin

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

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

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

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

Don't believe in ghosts but evidence points to the fact that the spirit of Janis Joplin puked all over your pad. — Kristen Ashley

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

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose. — 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. — Janis Joplin

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins. — Janis Joplin

Strange it's such a quiet peaceful existence and I'm enjoying it so thoroughly. — Laura Joplin

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. — Scott Joplin

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

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine. — Janis Joplin

But she was in love, and love isn't about making sense. — Laura Joplin

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

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

Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution. — Clive Davis

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

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin. — Bryan White

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. — Janis Joplin

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

You got to get it while you can — Janis Joplin

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

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

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

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

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

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

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.' — Miranda Leek

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The citizens of Joplin were unwittingly being trained not to act when the sirens sounded. — Mike Smith

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

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. — Scott Joplin

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

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