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What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
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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Janis Lyn Joplin
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I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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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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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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