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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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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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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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I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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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