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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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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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Stewardesses
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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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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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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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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You got to get it while you can.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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 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 know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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