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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
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Port Arthur
Texas
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As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.
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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 won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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 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 love being a star more than life itself.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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