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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin

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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Always Beer Couple Except Somewhere Sudden Voice
Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Anything Ca Happen Minute Minutes Waiting
You are what you settle for.
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Dream Hope Makeover Settle Settling Wish
When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLIN

Being First Love Music Point Sex Sing
I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLIN

Describe Inside Singing Something Talk
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?
JANIS JOPLIN

Good Long Matter Now Road Scary Truth Yeah
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
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Action Chick Eye Getting Honey Piece Trying
I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
JANIS JOPLIN

Confusion Different Full Hard Hurt Kid Lot Thing
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
JANIS JOPLIN

Application Believe Equality Experience People Test Truly Twin
After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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Cashmere Country Feeding Grdle Mother Sweater Winning
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Eye Look Need Talk
I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLIN

Goddamn Seventy Sitting Superhypemost Watching Tv Year
They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
JANIS JOPLIN

Asked Blue heavy Like Mouths Opened You
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…
JANIS JOPLIN

Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone

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