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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
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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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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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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.
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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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You got to get it while you can.
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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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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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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
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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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