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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
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
Pearl
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Blues
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Miserable

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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
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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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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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