Janis Joplin

“There isn't going to be any turning point. ... There isn't going to be any next-month-it'll-be-better, next fucking year, next fucking life. You don't have any time to wait for. You just got to look around you and say, "So this is it. This is really all there is to it. This little thing." Everybody needing such little things and they can't get them. Everybody needing just a little ... confidence from somebody else and they can't get it. Everybody, everybody fighting to protect their little feelings. Everybody, you know, like reaching out tentatively but drawing back. It's so shallow and seems so ... fucking ... it seems like such a shame. It's so close to being like really right and good and open and amorphous and giving and everything. But it's not. And it ain't gonna be.September 1969quoted in "The New Yorker" 9 August 1999”

“Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same fucking day, man.”

“You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.”

“‎'Don't compromise yourself - you are all you've got.”

“You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.”

“At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.”

“Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”

“You got to get it while you can”

“On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.”

“Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?”

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. ”

“I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs”

“After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.”

“I'm one of those regular weird people.”

“Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.”