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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 won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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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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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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