Quotes by Janis Joplin

• You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
• Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
• On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
• 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.
• You got to get it while you can.
• My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
• On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
• 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.
• I'm one of those regular weird people.
• I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
• 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.
• Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
• Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
• Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
• Rock on out.
• If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
• Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose, but I'd rather hedge my bets on happiness.