153 Quotes by Janis Joplin

I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

You are what you settle for.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin