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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Janis Joplin

You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Black False Myth People Racism Soul Stuck Themselves White
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.
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Asked Blue heavy Like Mouths Opened You
Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Emotional Experience Love Music Singing Somebody Supreme
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Afterward Blue Die Like Miserable People Singer
I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Before Exploded Happened Moving Rock Simple Sing Sung
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Alone Fake Home Loneliness Lonely People Thousandm World
In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Feeling Hurt Inside Like Really Silly Story
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
They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Behind Charging Coming Man Musician Sound Threw
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
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
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Affection Attachment Giving Love Philosophy Someone
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 People Quietly Texas Thing Want
If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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Dishwasher Much Own Problem Settle Somebody
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
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

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