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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
Janis Joplin
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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
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Janis Lyn Joplin
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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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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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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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 won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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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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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'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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