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

Janis Joplin

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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Everywhere Important Out Person Singer Singing Sort Started Street
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Audience Eye Look Need Talk
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 Inside Mostly Person Trying World
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
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Hippie Jack Off Tired
You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Dishwasher Fighting Only Problem Somebody. Settle Want
Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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Action Chick Eye Getting Honey Piece Trying
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
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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Back Loud Move Perform Sing Way Wild
It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Desire Like Make Planning Unhappiness Wish
I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Feel Really Sort Think Thinking Trying
The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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First Girl Guess Hippie might Pinup
Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Breakdown Distance Emotion Feeling Kill Relationship Sacrifice
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
Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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Decision Know Night One Rejection Stand Story

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