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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

Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Finding Love Look Mr Now Right
You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Back Loud Move Perform Sing Way Wild
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.
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Everywhere Important Out Person Singer Singing Sort Started Street
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
Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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Good Long Matter Now Road Scary Truth Yeah
I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Bullshit Doing Feel Mad Settling Wanted Worked
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.
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Asked Blue heavy Like Mouths Opened You
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Chick Concert Ems Liberation Looking Show Thinking
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
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
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Afterward Blue Die Like Miserable People Singer
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Lot Much Only Settle Settling
To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLIN

Bullshit Game Myself Person Play Trying
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Drink Thinking Too Much
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
The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLIN

Expression Grape Older Sweeter Wine

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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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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