Quote

I can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Janis Joplin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
Pearl
Singing
Inside
Talk
Something
Describe

More quotes by Janis Joplin

Image
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Janis Joplin
Image
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
Janis Joplin
Image
I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
Janis Joplin
Image
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
Janis Joplin
Image
Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
Janis Joplin
Image
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
Janis Joplin
Image
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
Janis Joplin
Image
I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
Janis Joplin
Image
What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
Janis Joplin
Image
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.
Janis Joplin
Image
I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.
Janis Joplin
Image
Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.
Janis Joplin
Image
You got to get it while you can.
Janis Joplin
Image
I love being a star more than life itself.
Janis Joplin
Image
Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Janis Joplin
Image
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
Janis Joplin
Image
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
Janis Joplin
Image
It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
Janis Joplin
Image
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
Janis Joplin
Image
I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
Janis Joplin