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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

Janis Joplin

You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
JANIS JOPLIN

Home People Play Seeing Stay Tired Town
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
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw
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
.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
To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
JANIS JOPLIN

Bullshit Game Myself Person Play Trying
Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beautiful Conscious Fat Girl Leg Man Most Self Shaped Short
I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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Hate Nigger Painted Read
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..
JANIS JOPLIN

Choice Gotta Man Party See Way Year
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
JANIS JOPLIN

Answer Create Home Idea Intellectual Lonely Question Strong Women
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Blue Miserable Music Sadness Singer
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLIN

Mediocre Now Sound Twenties Twenty Year
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
The more you live, the less you die.
JANIS JOPLIN

Death Die Less Life More
Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
JANIS JOPLIN

Action Chick Eye Getting Honey Piece Trying
I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLIN

Describe Inside Singing Something Talk

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