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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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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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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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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 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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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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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 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 just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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You got to get it while you can.
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