January 2010
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“I’m a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know...”
– Janis
“My father was like a secret intellectual, a book reader, a talker, a thinker. He...”
– Janis speaking about her father
“As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man....”
– Janis Joplin, Ball and Chain live.
“Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.”
– On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Eisenhower following his death in 1969.
“I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be...”
– Janis Joplin
“Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.”
– Janis Joplin
“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
– Janis Joplin
HAPPY BELATED 67TH BIRTHDAY, JANIS!
I’ve been too busy to come online and I missed what would’ve been Janis’ 67th birthday. I know, I know. I fail at life. So get ready for a spam of updates now!
“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.”
“She’s us. She’s not a star, she’s us. I’ve never met her but I know her. It’s...”
– A fan letter about Janis published in “Love, Janis”. The book was written by her younger sister, Laura.
