Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don’t know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I’ll get it. Janis Joplin Read Quote
As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning. Janis Joplin Read Quote
I can’t talk about my singing. I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of? Janis Joplin Read Quote
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I. Janis Joplin Read Quote
I have to have the ‘umph.’ I’ve got to feel it, because if it’s not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren’t going to feel it either. Janis Joplin Read Quote
You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things. Janis Joplin Read Quote
