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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.

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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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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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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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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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 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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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?
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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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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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 can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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