Top 15 Janis Joplin Quotes

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

I'm one of those regular weird people.

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

Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same fucking day, man.

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

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

"There isn't going to be any turning point. ... There isn't going to be any next-month-it'll-be-better, next fucking year, next fucking life. You don't have any time to wait for. You just got to look around you and say, "So this is it. This is really all there is to it. This little thing." Everybody needing such little things and they can't get them. Everybody needing just a little ... confidence from somebody else and they can't get it. Everybody, everybody fighting to protect their little feelings. Everybody, you know, like reaching out tentatively but drawing back. It's so shallow and seems so ... fucking ... it seems like such a shame. It's so close to being like really right and good and open and amorphous and giving and everything. But it's not. And it ain't gonna be.

September 1969
quoted in "The New Yorker" 9 August 1999"

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

You got to get it while you can

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

You are what you settle for.

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

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

"#305 "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose."~"