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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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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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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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 think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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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 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 just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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