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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?

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
Feels
Bullshit
Settling
Mad
Worked
Wanted
Right

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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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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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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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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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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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You got to get it while you can.
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