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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]

Janis Joplin

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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Anything Better Decide Maybe Trouble Want
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
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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First Girl Guess Hippie might Pinup
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Business End Enjoy Everything Fun Not Why
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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Arthur Badly Beatniks Good People Port Texas
I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Feel Really Sort Think Thinking Trying
.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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Getting Gonna Keep Now Today Twenty Year
Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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All Compromise Freedom Got Self
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
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Benz Buy Car Dream Lord Materialism Mercedes Benz Passion
You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Dishwasher Fighting Only Problem Somebody. Settle Want
If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Day Happen Same Today Tomorrow Wear Wisdom
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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Anything Brain Man Minute Sort Switch
When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Being First Love Music Point Sex Sing
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
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

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