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 More Quotes by Janis Joplin More Quotes From Janis Joplin This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games. Janis Joplin texas games play At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it. Janis Joplin nouns objects knows 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 stewardess artist want I won't quit to become someone's old lady. Janis Joplin old-lady quitting You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got. Janis Joplin compromise honesty I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV. Janis Joplin watching-tv sitting years I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it? Janis Joplin real men thinking People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards. Janis Joplin miserable singers people You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once? Janis Joplin why-not all-things feels On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. Janis Joplin fake-people lonely loneliness In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly. Janis Joplin like-me hurt silly Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? Janis Joplin twenties sound years You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for. Janis Joplin settling I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way. Janis Joplin rocks simple moving I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs Janis Joplin im-tired tired hippie Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. Janis Joplin porsche benz lord I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of? Janis Joplin singing i-can 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 arthur texas people Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder. Janis Joplin pieces eye trying After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win. Janis Joplin new-york mother winning
