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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.
Janis Joplin
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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
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Janis Lyn Joplin
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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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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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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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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'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'm one of those regular weird people.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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 destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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 got to get it while you can.
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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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