16 Quotes & Sayings By Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin (1943 – 1970) was an American singer and musician. She was known for her powerful voice, rebellious attitude, and wild live performances. Joplin began her career as the lead singer of the psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, before leaving the band in 1968 to continue as a solo artist. Her most commercially successful songs included "Piece of My Heart" and "Summertime."

You are what you settle for. You are only as...
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for Janis Joplin
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? Janis Joplin
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On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people then I go home alone. Janis Joplin
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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin
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Now that I'm here where am I? Janis Joplin
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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
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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
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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
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. Janis Joplin
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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
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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
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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
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone. Janis Joplin
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On stage, I make love to 25, 000 different people, then I go home alone. Janis Joplin
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My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. Janis Joplin