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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 think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.
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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'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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 got to get it while you can.
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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 would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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