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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.

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
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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'm one of those regular weird people.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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