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
Don't you know that you're nothing more than a one night stand?
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE...
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.
Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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.
Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
You got to get it while you can.
I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it