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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
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
It is never right to play ragtime fast.
— Scott Joplin
HENRY JOPLIN'S PRECEPTDon't be friends with jerks. — R.J. Palacio
Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I'm talking about, I knew Janis.
— Roger Daltrey
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
— Janis Joplin
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
— Janis Joplin
You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
— 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 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
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
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.
— Scott Joplin
The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
— Janis Joplin
But she was in love, and love isn't about making sense.
— Laura Joplin
Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
— Janis Joplin
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
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
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
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
— Janis Joplin
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
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
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
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
— 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 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
I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
— Janis Joplin