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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Lot Much Only Settle Settling
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Beer Bottle Gimme Humorous Pigfoot
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Audience Blue Miserable Music Sadness Singer
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Chick Concert Ems Liberation Looking Show Thinking
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
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
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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Down Man Rock Roll Sitting Smile Sweaty Thinking
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
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
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
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
That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Audience Feel Good Guy Made Man Right Story
I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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Choice Gotta Man Party See Way Year
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
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
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

I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

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