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I love being a star more than life itself.

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
Fame
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle 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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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 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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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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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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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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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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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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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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