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I'm one of those regular weird people.

Janis Joplin

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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
Composer
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Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.
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I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
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