Janis Joplin Quotes

Janis Joplin Quotes. Below is a collection of famous Janis Joplin quotes. Here you can find the most popular and greatest quotes by Janis Joplin. Share these quotations with your friends and family.

Don't compromise yourself, it's all you've got.

By Janis Joplin
On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.

By Janis Joplin
My Baby

By Janis Joplin
I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.

By Janis Joplin
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

By Janis Joplin
because they're not what you call in the groove.

By Janis Joplin
All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

By Janis Joplin