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
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, 'Do you think you could give me that?' That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I'm really far into this now, really committed. Like, I don't think I'd go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it's the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn't it?
I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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.