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Janis Joplin

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Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.


— Janis Joplin


#self-actualization #self-awareness #self-reliance #awareness

I'm one of those regular weird people.


— Janis Joplin


#people #regular #those #weird

Never compromise yourself. You are all you've got.


— Janis Joplin


#music

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.


— Janis Joplin


#five #go #go home #home #i

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.


— Janis Joplin


#good #hold #holding #i #rather

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.


— Janis Joplin


#artist #chicks #i #i always #like

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.


— Janis Joplin


#blues #like #miserable #singers #their

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.


— Janis Joplin


#black #feel #know #myth #only

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.


— Janis Joplin


#answers #being #creates #intellectual #lot

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.


— Janis Joplin


#lord #me #mercedes #oh #won






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Another song by Baez "Children Of The Eighties" mentioned Joplin. I finally remembered I don't have to be on stage twelve months a year. Another trademark was her flamboyant hair styles often including colored streaks and accessories such as scarves beads and feathers.

Janis Joplin charted five singles and other popular songs from her four-year career include "Down on Me" "Summertime" "Piece of My Heart" "Ball 'n' Chain" "Maybe" "To Love Somebody" "Kozmic Blues" "Work Me Lord" "Cry Baby" "Mercedes Benz" and her only number one hit "Me and Bobby McGee". Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19 1943 – October 4 1970) was an American singer-songwriter.

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