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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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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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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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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
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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 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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say 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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