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Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

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
Compromise
Self

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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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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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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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As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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You got to 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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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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 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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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