Quotes by Janis Joplin

“If I hold back, Im no good. Im no good. Id rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.”

“Id trade all my tommorows for a single yesterday”

“As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. Its all the same f***ing day, man.”

“Im one of those regular weird people.”

“You got to get it while you can. . .”

“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. Thats what music is to me.”

“Its gonna be a long hard drag, but well make it”

“Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?”

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

“Tennis has given me soul.”

“Im worth more dead than alive. Dont cry for me after Im gone; cry for me now.”

“The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.”

“The minute I tell you Im a dyke and youre like, If youre a lesbian, and we were laughing at you, does that. . . Just let me reassure you, yes, that makes you gay.”

“Freedoms just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, dont mean nothin honey if it aint free. And feelin good was easy, Lord, when he played the blues. You know feelin good was good enough for me, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.”

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

Oh Lord, wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz?

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people then I go home alone.

Dont compromise yourself. You are all youve got.

Now that Im here where am I?

Im a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didnt know what to do with it. But now Ive learned to make that feeling work for me.