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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
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Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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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 would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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You got to get it while you can.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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'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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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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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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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