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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
Singers
Miserable
Sadness
Misery
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Audiences
Blues

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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 know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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'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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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 can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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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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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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