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
You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
Women to be in-a the music business give up more than you'd ever know. She's got kids she gave up. Any woman gives up home life, an old man, probably, because you're so crazy on planes and runnin' and you never find 'em egain. You give up, you give up a home and friends, you give up children and friends, you give up an old man and friends, you give up any constant in the world except music. That's the only thing you've got man, after you boil it down, the only thing you got left in the world is that music, man. And, so for a woman to sing, she really needs to, or wants to. A man can do it as a gig, 'cause he knows he can get laid tonight.
I love being a star more than life itself.
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.
Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?
Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
I read, I painted, I didn't hate niggers,
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.