On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
~Janis JoplinYou know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
~Janis JoplinThe greatest white female rock singer of the 1960s, Janis Joplin was also a great blues singer, making her material her own with her wailing, raspy, supercharged emotional delivery.
~Richie Unterberger (allmusic.com)
Janis: Little Girl Blue (Feature length documentary, Dir. Amy Berg 2015):
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