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“I have a huge voice, so it's a bit more like a Janis Joplin vibe than a younger rock vibe. And I think that's what throws people because they don't know how to take me. Even critics - they don't know how to swallow me because they're like, 'Well, she came up like a total pop act',”
Kelly Clarkson
“I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.”
Eddie Money
“I'm one of those regular weird people.”
Janis Joplin
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”
“...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 to not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.”
“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