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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.

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
Anything
Breakdown
Time
Distance
Kill
Sacrifice
Relationship
Ready
Stand
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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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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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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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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 least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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 can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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