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
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
I'm one of those regular weird people.
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.
It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it!
Don't ever compromise yourself. You're all you've got.
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.
One of my talking points will be the accident of geography.
because they're not what you call in the groove.