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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

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-
JANIS JOPLIN

Down Man Rock Roll Sitting Smile Sweaty Thinking
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Hippie Jack Off Tired
You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Back Loud Move Perform Sing Way Wild
Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beatnik Believe Better Get Hippie Place
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Eye Look Need Talk
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
JANIS JOPLIN

Compromised Game Happened Play Really Success Texas Thing Whole
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
I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Bullshit Doing Feel Mad Settling Wanted Worked
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Destroying Enjoy More Music Thinking
The more you live, the less you die.
JANIS JOPLIN

Death Die Less Life More
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
JANIS JOPLIN

Back Good Hold Holding Rather Sometimes
If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLIN

Dishwasher Much Own Problem Settle Somebody
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLIN

Chick Concert Ems Liberation Looking Show Thinking
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLIN

Answer Inspirational Intellectual Question Strong Woman
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN

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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Everywhere Important Out Person Singer Singing Sort Started Street

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

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