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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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Hippie
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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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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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