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

Janis Joplin

Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Beatnik Believe Better Get Hippie Place
Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Left Man Nothing People Person
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Answer Inspirational Intellectual Question Strong Woman
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
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.
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Down Outrageous People Quietly Texas Thing Want
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 talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Audience Eye Look Need Talk
Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Anything Ca Happen Minute Minutes Waiting
It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Desire Like Make Planning Unhappiness Wish
I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Mine Single Tomorrow Trade Yesterday
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.
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Call People Point Someone Touch
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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Black False Myth People Racism Soul Stuck Themselves White
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Breakdown Distance Emotion Feeling Kill Relationship Sacrifice
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Asked Backstage Man Marry Old Opera Real Some Story Thinking Took
You got to get it while you can.
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Afford Can Got Inspire Positive You

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

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