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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Janis Joplin

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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
Pearl
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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 got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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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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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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You got to get it while you can.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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 not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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