153 Quotes by Janis Joplin

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games...

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?