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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

Janis Joplin

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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Call People Point Someone Touch
After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Cashmere Country Feeding Grdle Mother Sweater Winning
Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beautiful Conscious Fat Girl Leg Man Most Self Shaped Short
Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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All Compromise Freedom Got Self
When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Audience Band Boss Everything Like Magic Together
As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
JANIS JOPLIN

Back Gonna Good Philosophy Right World
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
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Audience Blue Miserable Music Sadness Singer
They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
JANIS JOPLIN

Asked Blue heavy Like Mouths Opened You
I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLIN

Describe Inside Singing Something Talk
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
I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Feel Really Sort Think Thinking Trying
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
.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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Getting Gonna Keep Now Today Twenty Year
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Adventure Destroy Motivational Positive Tomorrow
I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
JANIS JOPLIN

Before Exploded Happened Moving Rock Simple Sing Sung

Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

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