and later as a solo artist with her backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. At the height of her career she was known as The Queen of Rock and Roll as well as The Queen of Psychedelic Soul. Rolling Stone
magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004, and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas
, on January 19, 1943, to Dorothy (née East) Joplin (1913–1998), a registrar
at a business college, and her husband, Seth Joplin (1910–1987), an engineer at Texaco
.
Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.
I guess I'm the world's first hippie pinup girl.
Music’s for grooving man, and music’s not for puttin’ yourself through bad changes, y’know? I mean, you don’t have to go take anybody’s shit, man, just to like music, y’know what I mean? You don’t. So... so if you’re getting’ more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y’know, it’s just music. Music’s... music's s’posed to be different than that.
Honey, I love to go to parties,And I like to have a good time,But if it gets too pale after a whileHoney and I start looking to findOne good man.
One good man,Oh ain’t much, honey ain’t much,It’s only everything...
An’ I don’t want much outa life,I never wanted a mansion in the south.I just-a want to find someone sincereWho’d treat me like he talks,One good man.