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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
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
Pearl
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Inside
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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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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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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 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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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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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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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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 least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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