Quote

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

Janis Joplin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
Pearl
Started
Learning
Redding
Song
Rhythmically
Otis
Sliding
Push
Singing
Instead

More quotes by Janis Joplin

Image
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
Janis Joplin
Image
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin
Image
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
Janis Joplin
Image
Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Janis Joplin
Image
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
Janis Joplin
Image
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
Janis Joplin
Image
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
Janis Joplin
Image
I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
Janis Joplin
Image
You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
Janis Joplin
Image
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.
Janis Joplin
Image
I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
Janis Joplin
Image
It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
Janis Joplin
Image
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
Janis Joplin
Image
I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
Janis Joplin
Image
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
Janis Joplin
Image
Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
Janis Joplin
Image
Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.
Janis Joplin
Image
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
Janis Joplin
Image
If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
Janis Joplin
Image
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
Janis Joplin