153 Quotes by Janis Joplin

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.

You got to get it while you can.

Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.