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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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Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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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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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 tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that's what I sounded like. You can't make up something that you don't feel. I didn't make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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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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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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