Janis Joplin Quotes

“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.

“You got to get it while you can.

“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.

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

“I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

“You got to get it while you can.