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» . Wikipedia
Цитаты Дженис Джоплин
„Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose,
Nothing don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free…“
"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
Misattributed
Контексте: 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.
„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!“
"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
Live performance in Germany (1968) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uG2gYE5KOs
Misattributed
„Oh! But it don't make no difference, babe, hey,
And I know that I could always try.
Theres a fire inside everyone of us,
You'd better need it now,
I got to hold it, yeah,
I better use it till the day I die.“
"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
„Don't expect any answers, dear,
For I know that they don't come with age, no, no.
Well, ain't never gonna love you any better, babe.
And I'm never gonna love you right,
So you'd better take it now, and right now.“
"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
„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
Misattributed
„Work me Lord, work me Lord.
Please don't you leave me,
I feel so useless down here
With no one to love
Though I've looked everywhere
And I can't find me anybody to love,
To feel my care.“
"Work Me, Lord", from her album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969) was written by her bandmate Nick Gravenites, whom she credits at the start of her famous performance of the song at the Woodstock Music Festival https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsDFbwMCTKY, as well as others, such as a live performance in Stockholm (1969) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-irXmqIzGA
Misattributed
„Dawn has come at last,
Twenty-five years, honey just in one night, oh yeah.
Well, Im twenty-five years older now
So I know we can't be right
And Im no better, baby,
And I cant help you no more
Than I did when just a girl.“
"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
„Time keeps movin' on,
Friends they turn away.
I keep movin' on
But I never found out why
I keep pushing so hard the dream,
I keep tryin to make it right
Through another lonely day, whoaa.“
"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
„You know you got it if it makes you feel good.“
"Piece of My Heart" (1968) written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
Misattributed
„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 Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
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