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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

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
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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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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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I can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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.
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