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Janis Lyn Joplin (/ˈdʒɒplɪn/; January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American rock singer and songwriter; one of the most successful and widely-known female rock stars of her era. After releasing three albums, she died of a heroin overdose at the age of 27. A fourth album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death. It reached number one on the Billboard charts.

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I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.

Band, Huge, Rock, Rocks, Tune, Tunes

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Good, Important, Singers, Singing, Sort, Start

I love being a star more than life itself.

Fame, Life, Love, Love Is, Star, Stars

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me. ” – Janis Joplin

Answers, Fill, Home, Life, Lonely, Strong Women

At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.

Chicks, Ems, Gonna, Looking, Show, Thinking

I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.

Believe, Equality, People, Tests, Twins

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

Passion, Quiet, Sing

I'm not really thinking much. . . Just sort of, trying to feel.

Feels, Sort, Thinking, Trying

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

Back, Gonna, Good, Philosophy, This World, World

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

Bass, Beer, Couple, Good, Men, Rock

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Freedom, Left, Lose, Loses, Word

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.

Audience, Music, Sex, Sing, Touch, Two

Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

Compromise, Self

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Describe, I Can, Singing, Talk

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

Over It, Singing, Sliding, Song

What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.

Essence, Loses, Perspective, Success

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Benz, Buy, Lord, Porsche

It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

Free, Hard, Working It, Works, Worth, Worth It

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

Become, Lady, Old, Old Lady, Quit, Quitting

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

Inspirational Music, Soul, Want

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