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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

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
Feels
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Soul
Feel

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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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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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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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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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 think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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 least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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