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Janis Joplin

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Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.


— Janis Joplin


#down #i #ok #outrageous #own

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.


— Janis Joplin


#different #different people #go #go home #home

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.


— Janis Joplin


#badly #beatnik #beatniks #good #got

Rock on out.


— Janis Joplin


#rock

You got to get it while you can.


— Janis Joplin


#got #while #you

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.


— Janis Joplin


#allow #father #get #house #tv

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.


— Janis Joplin


#i #lady #old #old lady #quit

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


— Janis Joplin


#got #you #yourself

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.


— Janis Joplin


#first #girl #guess #hippie #i






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Did you know about Janis Joplin?

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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