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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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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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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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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
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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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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 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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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