Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
More Quotes from Janis Joplin:
Women to be in-a the music business give up more than you'd ever know. She's got kids she gave up. Any woman gives up home life, an old man, probably, because you're so crazy on planes and runnin' and you never find 'em egain. You give up, you give up a home and friends, you give up children and friends, you give up an old man and friends, you give up any constant in the world except music. That's the only thing you've got man, after you boil it down, the only thing you got left in the world is that music, man. And, so for a woman to sing, she really needs to, or wants to. A man can do it as a gig, 'cause he knows he can get laid tonight.Janis Joplin
Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.
Janis Joplin
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin
As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same fing day, man.
Janis Joplin
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
Janis Joplin
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