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Janis Joplin [1943-1970] American

Rank: 101
Musician, Singer

Janis Lyn Joplin was an influential American singer of the Sixties; her raw, powerful and uninhibited singing style, combined with her turbulent and emotional lifestyle, made her one of the biggest female stars in her lifetime.

Alone, Dad, Home, Intelligence

Quote	Tags	Rank
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.	Alone, Home	101
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.		102
I'm one of those regular weird people.		103
You got to get it while you can.		104
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.		105
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.	Intelligence	106
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.		107
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.		108
You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.		109
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.		110
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.		111
If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.		112
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.		113
I won't quit to become someone's old lady.		114
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.	Alone	115
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.		116
Rock on out.		117
My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.	Dad	118

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