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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.

Janis Joplin

I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Describe Inside Singing Something Talk
In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Feeling Hurt Inside Like Really Silly Story
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Mediocre Now Sound Twenties Twenty Year
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Dam Feel Loving Screw Short Silence Someone Telling
I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Goddamn Seventy Sitting Superhypemost Watching Tv Year
You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Emotion Feel Gigantic Multiple Once Thing Wear
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.
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Anything Better Decide Maybe Trouble Want
This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Compromised Game Happened Play Really Success Texas Thing Whole
They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Behind Charging Coming Man Musician Sound Threw
The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw
I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Feel Inspirational Music Much Soul Want
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Artist Chick Painted Read Stewardess Want Wanted Whatever
I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Confusion Different Full Hard Hurt Kid Lot Thing
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Audience Eye Look Need Talk
That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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Bullshit Inside Mostly Person Trying World
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Audience Destroying Enjoy More Music Thinking

And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.

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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.

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