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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

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
Settle
Settling
Much

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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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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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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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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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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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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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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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