“Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY…” Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin on fame

Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.

On losing the Newsweek cover to Dwight D. Eisenhower after his death; New Musical Express (12 April 1969), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same fucking day, man.
Comments on a performance of “Ball and Chain” Festival Express (1970)
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