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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.

Janis Joplin

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
I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Hate Nigger Painted Read
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…
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Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Feeling Matter Music Playing Really Sound
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Audience Eye Look Need Talk
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
This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Compromised Game Happened Play Really Success Texas Thing Whole
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
You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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Existed Feel Good Mouth Open Something
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
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Asked Backstage Man Marry Old Opera Real Some Story Thinking Took
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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All On Rock Roll Switch Turn
When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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Advice Gotta Hold Last Life Minute Somebody
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Artist Chick Painted Read Stewardess Want Wanted Whatever
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

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.

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