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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.
Janis Joplin
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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
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Port Arthur
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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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 won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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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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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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