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
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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
You got to get it while you can.
I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
I hope you're going to edit this stuff. I don't want to sound like a senile, self-pitying chick babbling on and on about her days of glory.
I had a moment with her at Elaine's (the celebrity hangout in Manhattan),
because they're not what you call in the groove.
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.
I feel, you know, I hurt, please help.' I'm saying words, man, and if I look at an audience and they ain't understanding me, it's just like getting kicked in the teeth.
As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same f***ing day, man.
I gotta go on doin' it the way I see it...I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I'm here to have a party while I'm on this earth...I'm gettin' it now, today. I don't even know where I'm gonna be twenty years from now, so I'm just gonna keep on rockin', cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me...man, there ain't gonna be nothing left for Janis.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.