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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.

Janis Joplin

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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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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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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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