153 Quotes by Janis Joplin

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

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.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.

I love being a star more than life itself.

You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.