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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.

Janis Joplin

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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
Composer
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Port Arthur
Texas
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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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 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 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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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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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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