Quotes by Janis Joplin

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I dont know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe Ill get it.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isnt necessarily about misery. Playing isnt necessarily about happiness. But its just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but youre all the time trying to push them aside because they dont make for polite conversation or something.

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

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

When I sing, I feel like when youre first in love. Its more than sex. Its that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but its gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

Ive been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isnt just a desperate quest for positions or money. Its just love - lots of love.

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

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

My father wouldnt get us a TV, he wouldnt allow a TV in the house.