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Janis Joplin
American
Musician
About the author
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,
American
Musician
#People
#Thought
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#Thought
#Artist
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#First
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#Compromise
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#Being
#Questions
#Answers
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#Audiences
Rock on out.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Time
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,
American
Musician
#People
#Soul
#Myth
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#Love
#People
#Home
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,
American
Musician
#Want
#People
You got to get it while you can.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#Father
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#Love
#People
#Home
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#Time
#Love
#People
#First
#Sex
I'm one of those regular weird people.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#People
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
Janis Joplin,
American
Musician
#Old
#Lady