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I can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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
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Janis Lyn Joplin
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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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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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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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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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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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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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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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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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