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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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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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I love being a star more than life itself.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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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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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I think I think too much. That's why I drink!
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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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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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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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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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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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