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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
Love
Life
Star
Fame
Stars

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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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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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 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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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