Hippies 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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Hippies 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.

Janis Joplin

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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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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 Heavies Stoned Wanted
That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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All On Rock Roll Switch
In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Like Really Silly
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Know Least Nouns Object Objects Plural Retract
All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Playing Really
When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Being First Point
That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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Bullshit Mostly Trying
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.
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Fat Leg Most Self Shaped
You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Compromise Got
Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

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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 Drive Friend Make Porsche
It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Like Make Unhappiness Wish
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.

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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Second Themselves Thought
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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End Enjoy Everything Not Why
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Asked Backstage Marry Opera Real Some Took
This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Compromised Happened Really Texas Thing Whole
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.

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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.
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Down Outrageous Quietly Texas Thing

Hippies 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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