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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
Worked
Wanted
Right
Feels
Bullshit
Settling
Mad

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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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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 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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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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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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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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