Дженис Джоплин цитаты
Дженис Джоплин
Дата рождения: 19. Январь 1943
Дата смерти: 4. Октябрь 1970
Другие имена:Janis Joplinová
Дже́нис Лин Джо́плин — американская рок-певица, выступавшая сначала в составе Big Brother and the Holding Company, затем в Kozmic Blues Band и Full Tilt Boogie Band. Джоплин, выпустившая лишь четыре студийных альбома , считается лучшей белой исполнительницей блюза и одной из величайших вокалисток в истории рок-музыки.
В 1995 году Дженис Джоплин была посмертно введена в Зал славы рок-н-ролла; в 2005 году — удостоена «Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award» за выдающиеся достижения; в 2013 году — получила звезду на Голливудской «Аллее славы». Джоплин занимает 46-е место в списке «50 величайших исполнителей всех времён» журнала Rolling Stone и 28-е в списке «100 величайших певцов и певиц всех времён» .
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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
„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
„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)