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Janis Joplin
American
Musician
Born:
Jan 19
,
1943
Died:
Oct 4
,
1970
Love
Me
People
Stage
Time
You
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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.
Janis Joplin
Love
You
Money
Desperate
Looking
Ambition
Positions
Something
Around
How
How Much
Been
Quest
Lots
Just
Loved
Much
Really
Noticed
Need
Who you are is what you settle for, you know?
Janis Joplin
You
Settle
Know
Who
I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.
Janis Joplin
Work
Time
Me
Unhappy
Feeling
Own
Victim
Everything
My Own
Know
Make
Learned
Very
Just
Wanted
Used
Now
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin
Intelligence
Answers
Intellectual
Lot
Questions
Being
Creates
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin
Love
Alone
Home
People
Stage
Make
Go
Go Home
Different
Then
Different People
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.
Janis Joplin
Strength
You
Singing
Universe
Franklin
Aretha
Aretha Franklin
Feel
Like
Know
Make
Got
Get
Maybe
Subtle
Holiday
Notes
Billie Holiday
Whole
Keep
Now
Milk
Two
I'm one of those regular weird people.
Janis Joplin
People
Those
Weird
Regular
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
You
People
Own
Down
Settle
OK
Outrageous
Always
Texas
Quietly
Want
Your
Thing
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
Time
Good
Sometimes
Holding
Back
Rather
Than
Hold
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin
Buy
Me
You
Mercedes
Lord
Oh
All of a sudden, someone threw me in front of this rock and roll band. And I decided then and there that was it. I never wanted to do anything else.
Janis Joplin
Me
Band
Else
Someone
Threw
Never
Rock
Rock And Roll
Roll
Front
Wanted
Anything
Decided
Anything Else
Then
Sudden
When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
Janis Joplin
Love
Time
You
People
Sex
First
Gigantic
Someone
Touch
More
Point
Feel
Like
Sing
Call
First Time
Audience
Than
Get
Chills
Really
Whole
Two
Two People
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
Good
People
Treat
Thought
Seen
Too
Though
Neither
Never
Beatnik
Had
Badly
Got
Texas
Very
Arthur
Port
Treated
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
Janis Joplin
Old
Become
Someone
Quit
Lady
Old Lady
Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.
Janis Joplin
Happiness
Time
You
Conversation
Yourself
Feeling
Those
Inside
About
Something
Misery
Push
Feel
Make
Because
Polite
Trying
Just
Them
Aside
Letting
Things
Necessarily
Playing
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
Janis Joplin
Girl
First
Guess
Be The First
Hippie
Might
As it gets closer and more probable, being a star is really losing its meaning.
Janis Joplin
Losing
More
Closer
Gets
Probable
Being
Meaning
Really
Star
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