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

~Janis Joplin

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

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

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

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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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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.

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I have to have the 'umph.' I've got to feel it, because if it's not getting through to me, the audience sure as hell aren't going to feel it either.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: January 19th, 1943

Died: October 4th, 1970

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