Janis Joplin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

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

“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.”

“Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.”

“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.”

“Rock on out.”

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