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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

If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLIN

Affection Attachment Giving Love Philosophy Someone
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
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
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Dam Feel Loving Screw Short Silence Someone Telling
I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Hate Nigger Painted Read
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN

Lot Much Only Settle Settling
My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLIN

Amount Bigger Bottom Incredible Ladder More Rock Want
I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLIN

Feel Inspirational Music Much Soul Want
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLIN

Afterward Blue Die Like Miserable People Singer
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
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
That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Feel Good Guy Made Man Right Story
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLIN

Alone Fake Home Loneliness Lonely People Thousandm World
That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
JANIS JOPLIN

Game Inside Myself People Person Play True
All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLIN

Feeling Matter Music Playing Really Sound
I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Describe Inside Singing Something Talk

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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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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