Janis Joplin quotes

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

Singing, it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
- Janis Joplin

On stage, I make love to twenty-five thousand people, and then I go home alone.
- 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.
- Janis Joplin

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn’t necessarily about misery. Playing isn’t necessarily about happiness. But it’s just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you’re all the time trying to push them aside because they don’t make for polite conversation or something.
- Janis Joplin

I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’ That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
- Janis Joplin

I have to have the ‘umph.’ I’ve got to feel it because if it’s not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren’t going to feel it either.
- Janis Joplin

I can’t talk about my singing. I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
- Janis Joplin

When everything is together- the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
- Janis Joplin

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
- Janis Joplin

The more you live, the less you die.
- Janis Joplin

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

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
- Janis Joplin

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

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
- Janis Joplin

It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
- Janis Joplin

You know you’ve got it if it makes you feel good.
- Janis Joplin

You got to get it while you can.
- Janis Joplin

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

If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
- Janis Joplin