Janis

So today on my 30 day challenge was who would you like to trade places with for the day. I chose Janis Joplin. She had such soul. She was beautiful without trying to be, I love her beatnik style. I love the layers and the jewlrey and messy hair. She is one of my favorite people. I truly feel I was born in the wrong decade. I would have loved to see her in concert. It is a shame she is no longer with us, but I think she always knew she wouldn't be. Here is on of my favorite descriptions of her "The premier white female blues vocalist of the 1960s, who dazzled listeners with her fierce and uninhibited musical style. "1943-1970  I am going to include in this post some of my favorite quotes from Janis. I when you read them you understand why I feel such a connection to her.

"I'm one of those regular weird people."

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

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

"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. "

"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

"I'd trade all my tommorows for a single yesterday."

“It's gonna be a long hard drag, but we'll make it."

"I hope you're going to edit this stuff. I don't want to sound like a senile, self-pitying chick babbling on and on about her days of glory."

"I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. I read a lot. I guess you'd say I was pretty intellectual. It's odd, I can't remember when it changed. 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 how to make 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. I'm into me, plus they're into me, and everything comes together. You're full of it. I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about."

"People expect Janis Joplin to be a tough bitch, and say I start talking to them like a lonely little girl--that's not in their image of me--they don't see it. Say you meet somebody you've heard about, you don't ever see them, you don't see who they are and who they need to be recognized as, you see who you need them to be."