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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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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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 least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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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'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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
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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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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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