Janis Lyn Joplin quotes Born: 01/19/1943 Died: 10/04/1970 Country: usa

• On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. (Janis Joplin) [stage/love/people/housing]
• As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It’s all the same f***ing day, man. (Janis Joplin) [matter/day]
• Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. (Janis Joplin) [blues/singers]
• 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) [being/life//housing]
• Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. (Janis Joplin) [compromise]
• Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week. (Janis Joplin)
• I had a moment with her at Elaine’s (the celebrity hangout in Manhattan), (Janis Joplin) [moment/celebrity]
• I‘d trade all my tommorows for a single yesterday (Janis Joplin) [trade/]
• I‘m one of those regular weird people. (Janis Joplin) [weird/people]
• 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) [time]
• It’s gonna be a long hard drag, but we’ll make it (Janis Joplin)
• It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’ s worth it! (Janis Joplin)
• Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. (Janis Joplin) [lord]
• On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone (Janis Joplin) [stage/love/people/housing]
• One of my talking points will be the accident of geography. (Janis Joplin) [willpower]
• She was electrifying. It was like she was channeling Bessie Smith or something. (Janis Joplin)
• What’s happening never happens there (Janis Joplin)
• Which showed that my interest in rock was not based in a vast knowledge of their work. It was about them. (Janis Joplin) [interest/knowledge]
• Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? (Janis Joplin) [sound/mediocre/sound/mediocre]
• You got to get it while you can. . . (Janis Joplin)
• Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. (Janis Joplin)
• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. (Janis Joplin)
• Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl. (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)
• I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I. (Janis Joplin)
• I won't quit to become someone's old lady. (Janis Joplin)
• I'm one of those regular weird people. (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)
• My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. (Janis Joplin)
• Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. (Janis Joplin)
• On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. (Janis Joplin)

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