I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love. Janis Joplin More Quotes by Janis Joplin More Quotes From Janis Joplin It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness. Janis Joplin unhappiness wish Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful. Janis Joplin girl beautiful men Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin encouraging positive life All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble. Janis Joplin couple beer men I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that? Janis Joplin settling bullshit mad If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can. Janis Joplin affection giving philosophy 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 holding-back holding-on sometimes Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. Janis Joplin strong-women intellectual inspirational What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music. Janis Joplin loses perspective essence My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right? Janis Joplin why-not ends fun Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand? Janis Joplin rejection knows night 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 racism white people Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything. Janis Joplin minutes waiting can-do I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday. Janis Joplin trade tomorrow yesterday All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star? Janis Joplin girl stars men Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for. Janis Joplin breakdown distance sacrifice Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time. Janis Joplin get-better hippie believe If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be. Janis Joplin rock-and-roll men thinking The older the grapes, sweeter the wine. Janis Joplin grapes wine expression I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel. Janis Joplin feels trying thinking
