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I remember thinking that Janis Joplin sang like Mae West talked. When I first heard the primal scream in 'Piece Of My Heart,' I…

— Joan Jett

America? They had a good girl singer, Janis Joplin.

— Maurice Gibb

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

— Rick Springfield

I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, 'Honey, you can't continue to sing like that,…

— Michael Wadleigh

I think that it was really rock-and-roll stars, women who were breaking boundaries with their bodies and their voices and their beings and their…

— Eve Ensler

... Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged in Southern…

— Al Aronowitz

“[H]e asked Renee, “What does rock and roll have today that it didn’t have in the sixties?” Renee said, “Tits,” which in retrospect strikes…

— Rob Sheffield

I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she…

— Michael Wadleigh

“I remember the summer of 1996, at a drunken wedding with one of my professors, a Hendrix-freak baby boomer, when he was complaining about…

— Rob Sheffield

Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her…

— LeAnn Rimes

The intensity with which Janis Joplin sings, you simply can't find a singer like that. It's almost scary the amount of emotion and energy…

— Michael Wadleigh

When I was in college, I didn't know a lot of female guitar players. It was Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Lita Ford, Joan Jett.…

— Susan Tedeschi