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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.

Janis Joplin

When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLIN

Advice Gotta Hold Last Life Minute Somebody
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

Anything Brain Man Minute Sort Switch
What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Control Essence Learn Lose Perspective Succes
All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLIN

Girl Love Man Rock Roll Star
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Down Outrageous People Quietly Texas Thing Want
All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beer Couple Good Heavies Life Man Stoned Time Wanted
You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
JANIS JOPLIN

Emotion Feel Gigantic Multiple Once Thing Wear
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLIN

Drink Thinking Too Much
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
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
JANIS JOPLIN

Back Good Hold Holding Rather Sometimes
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

Cashmere Country Feeding Grdle Mother Sweater Winning
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
JANIS JOPLIN

Know Least Nouns Object Objects Plural Retract
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
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
JANIS JOPLIN

Hippie Jack Off Tired
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
JANIS JOPLIN

Down Man Rock Roll Sitting Smile Sweaty Thinking
I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
JANIS JOPLIN

Meaning Over Redding Rhythmically Singing Song

All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.

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