
Janis Joplin
Birthday: 19 January 1943, Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Birth Name: Janis Lyn Joplin
Height: 165 cm
Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary's Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker and her mother was a registrar for ...Show More

I don't believe in gate-crashing. The people aren't up there when I'm sweating on a stage at a festi Show more
I don't believe in gate-crashing. The people aren't up there when I'm sweating on a stage at a festival, breaking my ass. You can get the money to buy a concert ticket, man. Sell your old lady, sell your dope. Look at me, man, I'm selling my heart. Hide
You know, I have to have the umph. I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, t Show more
You know, I have to have the umph. I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either. Hide
Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day man.
Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day man.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porches, I must make amends.
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porches, I must make amends.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Most television shows are such shit, like selling plastic raindrops.
Most television shows are such shit, like selling plastic raindrops.
[asked by a reporter what "acid rock" was] I wouldn't know. I'm a juicer.
[asked by a reporter what "acid rock" was] I wouldn't know. I'm a juicer.
They're frauds, the whole goddamn hippie culture. They bitch about brainwashing from their parents a Show more
They're frauds, the whole goddamn hippie culture. They bitch about brainwashing from their parents and they do the same damn thing. I've never known a one of those people who would tolerate any way of life but their own. Hide
My advice to everyone is come to California and I'll buy you a drink.
My advice to everyone is come to California and I'll buy you a drink.
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make m Show more
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me. I'm full of emotion and I want a release, and if you're on stage and if it's really working and you've got the audience with you, it's a oneness you feel. Hide
Janis Joplin's FILMOGRAPHY
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