Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Janis Lyn Joplinwas an American singer considered the premier female blues vocalist of the Sixties; her raw, powerful and uninhibited singing style, combined with her turbulent and emotional lifestyle, made her one of the biggest female stars in her lifetime. She died of a drug overdose in 1970 after releasing only four albums...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth19 January 1943
CityPort Arthur, TX
CountryUnited States of America
The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
I'm one of those regular weird people.
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?
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
I'd rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
You are what you settle for.
I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
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.
I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.