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 are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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?
You are what you settle for.
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
because they're not what you call in the groove.
She was electrifying. It was like she was channeling Bessie Smith or something.
In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
I love being a star more than life itself.
You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
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.