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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

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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Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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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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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
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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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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 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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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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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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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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