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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

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
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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I can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that's what I sounded like. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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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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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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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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