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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
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
Pearl
Learn
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Perspective
Essence
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Loses
Control
Success

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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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 one of those regular weird people.
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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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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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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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