Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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.
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
I'm one of those regular weird people.
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
It's a supreme emotional and physical experience-I live for that one hour on stage. It's full of feeling-it's a rush, honey.
Man, you and any housewife have all sorts of pain and joy. You'd have soul if you'd give in to it.
My father was like a secret intellectual, a bookreader, a talker, and a thinker. He was very important to me, because he made me think.
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Onstage I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.
Rock on out.
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.
The biggestthing in our house was when you learnt to write your name, you got to go and get a library card.
Well, I was supposed to be on the latest cover of Newsweek, but Eisenhower died. Goddamnit, 14 heart attacks and he had to die in my week.
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
You got to get it while you can.
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.
When Janis passed she requested to be cremated and her ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean.
Some of Janis greatest friends were Jimmy Hendrix and Grace Slick.
Janis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
Janis trademark is her raspy voice.
Janis gained notoriety when the band performed at the “Monterey Pop Festival”.
In college Janis rough times continued as one year a local fraternity voted her “The Ugliest Man on Campus” in 1963.
Janis attended Lamar State College then dropped out. She then attended the University of Texas.
Janis parents were common folk from Texas. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for a local business college.
Janis appear several times on “The Dick Cavett Show” as herself and her life.
Janis appeared on “Hollywood Palace” as herself in 1968.
Intimate Portrait: Janis Joplin did a feature on Janis using live footage and interviews with people who knew Janis to portray her life.
Actual live footage was used n the film “Festival Express” of Janis in 2003.
Janis was seen in the movie “Petulia” in 1968. She was a part of the singing group featured in the movie “Big Brother & The Holding Co".
Janis song were used in many different films one of which was “The Dreamers” released in 2003. The song used was “I need a Man to Love”.
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