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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!

Janis Joplin

Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLIN

Amend Benz Buy Drive Friend Lord Make Porsche
Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLIN

Left Man Nothing People Person
I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLIN

Bad Good Passion Peace Quiet Rather Sing Sound
That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
JANIS JOPLIN

Bullshit Inside Mostly Person Trying World
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Down Outrageous People Quietly Texas Thing Want
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 won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLIN

Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
JANIS JOPLIN

Control Essence Learn Lose Perspective Succes
All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLIN

Feeling Matter Music Playing Really Sound
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
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Anything Better Decide Maybe Trouble Want
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Arthur Badly Beatniks Good People Port Texas
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Anything Brain Man Minute Sort Switch
I love being a star more than life itself.
JANIS JOPLIN

Fame Itself Life Love More Star
Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
JANIS JOPLIN

Decision Know Night One Rejection Stand Story

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