I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
JANIS JOPLINHippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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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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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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You are what you settle for.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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