Frasi di Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Data di nascita: 19. Gennaio 1943
Data di morte: 4. Ottobre 1970
Altri nomi:Janis Joplinová
Janis Lyn Joplin è stata una cantante statunitense.
Divenne nota verso la fine degli anni sessanta come cantante del gruppo Big Brother and the Holding Company, e successivamente per i suoi lavori da solista. La sua carriera continuò fino alla morte per overdose all'età di 27 anni. La rivista statunitense Rolling Stone la pone al 28º posto della lista dei 100 artisti più importanti della storia e al 28º della classifica del 2008 dei 100 cantanti più importanti di tutti i tempi.
Riconosciuta e ricordata per l'intensità delle sue interpretazioni, nel 1995 è stata inserita nella Rock and Roll Hall of Fame e nel 2005 è stata insignita del Grammy Award alla carriera.
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„Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free...“
— Janis Joplin
Context: Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free...
And feeling good was easy, lord, when he sang the blues.
You know feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.
"Me and Bobby McGee" another of her greatest hits, the song was actually written by Kris Kristofferson, and first released as sung by Roger Miller
„Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.“
— Janis Joplin
"Ball and Chain" Festival Express live 1970 (1967)
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Mercedes Benz (1970)
„Work me, lord. Please don't you leave me. I feel so useless down here with no one to love. Though I looked everywhere, and I can't find me anybody to love, to feel my care... So, work me lord, oh, use me lord. Can I show you how hard it is trying to live when you're all alone? Everyday I keep trying to move forward but something is driving me, oh, back. Something's trying to hold on to me, to my way of life. So, oh, don't you forget me down here lord, no no no no no, don't you forget me, lord. Well I don't think I'm any very special kind of person down here, I know better. But I don't think you're gonna find anybody, not anybody who can say that they tried like I tried. The worst that you can say all about me is that I'm never satisfied...“
— Janis Joplin
"Work me, Lord", live at Woodstock (1969)
„Music’s for grooving man, and music’s not for puttin’ yourself through bad changes, y’know? I mean, you don’t have to go take anybody’s shit, man, just to like music, y’know what I mean? You don’t. So... so if you’re getting’ more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y’know, it’s just music. Music’s... music's s’posed to be different than that.“
— Janis Joplin
Spoken on the live recording of "Piece Of My Heart" on "Cheap Thrills" (1968)
„Well, I’m gonna show you, baby, that a woman can be tough.
I want you to come on, come on, come on, come on and take it,
Take another little piece of my heart now, baby!“
— Janis Joplin
"Piece of My Heart" (1968) Though this song became well known as one of her greatest hits, it was actually written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
„You know you got it if it makes you feel good.“
— Janis Joplin
"Piece of My Heart" (1968) written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
„Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.“
— Janis Joplin
On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
