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

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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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Might
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.
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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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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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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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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 had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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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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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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