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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.

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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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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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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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 won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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 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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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