American - Musician | January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
YourselfCompromiseYouGot
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
GoodTimeBackSometimesHoldThan
I'm one of those regular weird people.
PeopleWeirdThoseRegular
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
LoveHomeAlonePeopleGoStage
Who you are is what you settle for, you know?
YouKnowSettleWho
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
WorkTimeMeUnhappyFeelingKnow
I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
LoveMoneyAmbitionLookingLoved
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
PeopleTexasYouDownWantSettle
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
SomeoneLadyQuitBecomeOld
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
MeYouMercedesBuyLordOh
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.
HappinessTimeYourselfPushYou
Rock on out.
RockOut
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Janis Joplin quotes