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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.

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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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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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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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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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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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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 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 would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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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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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