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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.

Janis Joplin

.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Getting Gonna Keep Now Today Twenty Year
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Lot Much Only Settle Settling
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
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Business End Enjoy Everything Fun Not Why
I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Goddamn Seventy Sitting Superhypemost Watching Tv Year
To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Bullshit Game Myself Person Play Trying
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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Meaning Over Redding Rhythmically Singing Song
You got to get it while you can.
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Afford Can Got Inspire Positive You
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
You are what you settle for.
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Dream Hope Makeover Settle Settling Wish
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Ideas Second Themselves Thought Win
I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Feel Feeling Much Soul Think
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Mediocre Now Sound Twenties Twenty Year
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.
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Anything Brain Man Minute Sort Switch
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?
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Good Long Matter Now Road Scary Truth Yeah

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