153 Quotes by Janis Joplin

You're only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody's dishwasher that's their own f***ing problem. If you don't settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you'll end up anything you want to be.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

The more you live, the less you die.

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

She was electrifying. It was like she was channeling Bessie Smith or something.

One of my talking points will be the accident of geography.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.