Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? Janis Joplin More Quotes by Janis Joplin More Quotes From Janis Joplin My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. Janis Joplin boyfrienddadfather When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic. Janis Joplin bossmagictogether On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone. Janis Joplin 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 lookingyoumoneylove All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. Janis Joplin someonenevermerock-and-roll Who you are is what you settle for, you know? Janis Joplin settlewhoknowyou I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me. Janis Joplin feelingmeworktime Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something. Janis Joplin yourselfyoutimehappiness On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. Janis Joplin alonehomelovepeople Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it. Janis Joplin youholidaysingingstrength Rock on out. Janis Joplin rockout I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either. Janis Joplin feelmeaudiencehell
