Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
Janis JoplinPeople, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
Janis JoplinAfter 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