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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

Janis Joplin

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
Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Amend Benz Buy Drive Friend Lord Make Porsche
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
I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Meaning Over Redding Rhythmically Singing Song
You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Home People Play Seeing Stay Tired Town
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-
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Down Man Rock Roll Sitting Smile Sweaty Thinking
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Answer Inspirational Intellectual Question Strong Woman
If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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Dishwasher Much Own Problem Settle Somebody
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Adventure Destroy Motivational Positive Tomorrow
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
Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Anything Ca Happen Minute Minutes Waiting
The more you live, the less you die.
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Death Die Less Life More
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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Choice Gotta Man Party See Way Year
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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Beer Couple Good Heavies Life Man Stoned Time Wanted
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

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