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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
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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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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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
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