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

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily abo...

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When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people c...

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

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

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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can...

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

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

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make m...

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I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition is...

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Now that I'm here where am I?

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

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

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

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Janis Joplin

Singer

Born: 1943-01-19

Died: 1970-10-04

Janis Lyn Joplin (19 January 1943 – 4 October 1970) was an American singer and songwriter.More