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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
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
Pearl
Gonna
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World

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I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.
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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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 think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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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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