Top 100 Joplin Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Joplin

#1. I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.

Patti Smith

#2. Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I'm talking about, I knew Janis.

Roger Daltrey

#3. I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison.

Michael Wadleigh

#4. My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'

Miranda Leek

#5. I remember the first time somebody played me Janis Joplin. My friend Donna put on Janis Joplin, and she said, 'You're like her.' At the time, I wasn't even a singer; I was a drummer. I just wanted to play the drums.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#6. I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.

Dennis Rodman

#7. Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.

Clive Davis

#8. To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

Patrick Swayze

#9. America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.

Maurice Gibb

#10. Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.

Scott Simon

#11. I love the Beatles, and when I was very young, I had young parents, so Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles constantly were big influences on my life.

Phil Anselmo

#12. Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song.

LeAnn Rimes

#13. Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

Madonna Ciccone

#14. When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

Cyndi Lauper

#15. My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne Warwick. Other highlights include working with Janis Joplin, who was the first artist I ever signed, as well as Patti Smith and Alicia Keys.

Clive Davis

#16. I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

Bryan White

#17. The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head.

Shawn Amos

#18. Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

B.B. King

#19. Shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that ...

Sam Andrew

#20. The citizens of Joplin were unwittingly being trained not to act when the sirens sounded.

Mike Smith

#21. The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

Steven Van Zandt

#22. The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before ... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.

Clive Davis

#23. Janis Joplin is singing with Big Brother in the Panhandle and almost everybody is high and it is a pretty nice Sunday afternoon.

Joan Didion

#24. People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.

Brittany Howard

#25. I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

Stevie Nicks

#26. I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

Demetri Martin

#27. I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

Patti LuPone

#28. To this day, there's nobody, nobody that sounds like Janice Joplin.

Clive Davis

#29. I thought it was going to be a hut in Topanga and Janis Joplin was going to come out, but it's a real doctor ... I went to Beverly Hills to meet this midwife; you'd think they'd be in nature.

Simon Helberg

#30. HENRY JOPLIN'S PRECEPT
Don't be friends with jerks.

R.J. Palacio

#31. We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care because we know this: the life we save is our own.

Alice Walker

#32. To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Jon Landau

#33. I love that Euro-pop dance music, but with girl power. I also listen to Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. I have a Beatles song tattooed on my foot. I'm all over the place.

Hilary Duff

#34. I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.

Duncan Roy

#35. The intensity with which Janis Joplin sings, you simply can't find a singer like that. It's almost scary the amount of emotion and energy and passion she puts into her performance.

Michael Wadleigh

#36. She's cute. In a weird, Janis Joplin, will probably die at twenty-seven kind of way.

Krystal Sutherland

#37. In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Patti Smith

#38. Don't believe in ghosts but evidence points to the fact that the spirit of Janis Joplin puked all over your pad.

Kristen Ashley

#39. It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism ... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

Clive Davis

#40. The cult of celebrity in the '60s and '70s was really more reserved for movie stars or high socialites. Paparazzi didn't care about Janis Joplin.

Patti Smith

#41. I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, 'Honey, you can't continue to sing like that, or you'll have no voice,' and Janis' response was just to laugh and take a swig on her Southern Comfort.

Michael Wadleigh

#42. He was leading those who risked their lives over that bridge in Selma, not Janice Joplin, Columbia University, or a labor union. It wasn't John Lennon that taught people about love and peaceful resistance - that job fell on the shoulders of a Jewish carpenter.

Glenn Beck

#43. I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

Eddie Money

#44. She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

John Green

#45. I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.

Brittany Howard

#46. The 1960s:
A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

Richard Brautigan

#47. My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Natalie Cole

#48. Coyote: A small canid (Canis latrans) native to western North America that is closely related to the American wolf and whose cry has often been compared to that of Sippie Wallace and Janis Joplin, amongst others.

Sherman Alexie

#49. You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.

Jon Bon Jovi

#50. I adore Janis Joplin, who sixties herself to death.

Caitlin Moran

#51. All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

Janis Joplin

#52. On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

#53. Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

Janis Joplin

#54. Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin

#55. My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

Janis Joplin

#56. After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle
[expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

Janis Joplin

#57. If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Janis Joplin

#58. This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I ... that was on inside of me and not play games ...

Janis Joplin

#59. If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.

Janis Joplin

#60. You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for

Janis Joplin

#61. I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.

Janis Joplin

#62. I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.

Janis Joplin

#63. Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

Janis Joplin

#64. I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE ...

Janis Joplin

#65. I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin

#66. On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin

#67. If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

Janis Joplin

#68. I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

Janis Joplin

#69. Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

Scott Joplin

#70. To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.

Janis Joplin

#71. The more you live, the less you die.

Janis Joplin

#72. As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

Janis Joplin

#73. I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Janis Joplin

#74. It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

Janis Joplin

#75. In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.

Janis Joplin

#76. Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Janis Joplin

#77. People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

Janis Joplin

#78. Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

Janis Joplin

#79. But she was in love, and love isn't about making sense.

Laura Joplin

#80. It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

Janis Joplin

#81. I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Janis Joplin

#82. They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that's what I sounded like. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

Janis Joplin

#83. Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Janis Joplin

#84. You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

Janis Joplin

#85. You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

Janis Joplin

#86. When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.

Janis Joplin

#87. Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do ... Try A Little Bit Harder.

Janis Joplin

#88. I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

Janis Joplin

#89. Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

Janis Joplin

#90. When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it's the last minute of your life.

Janis Joplin

#91. It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Scott Joplin

#92. You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

Janis Joplin

#93. Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Janis Joplin

#94. Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going to be bad, she let all the stops out. Anything less than full commitment to an idea of activity was 'hypocritical', the worst adjective anyone could hurl at another.

Laura Joplin

#95. Let me see you do the 'rag time dance' ...
Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance' ...
Turn the other way and do the 'Slow drag' ...
Now take your lady to the world's fair ( ... )
And do the 'rag time dance.'

Scott Joplin