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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

Janis Joplin

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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
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Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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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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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
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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 won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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I can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.
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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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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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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 think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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