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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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
Pearl
Misery
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Music
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Audiences
Blues
Singers
Miserable
Sadness

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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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 can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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