Quotes from Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

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.

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

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

Freedom's just another word for nothin left to loose. Nothin, don't mean nothin honey if it ain't free. And feelin good was easy, Lord, when he played the blues. You know feelin good was good enough for me, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.