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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

Janis Joplin

You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN

Lot Much Only Settle Settling
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 can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Describe Inside Singing Something Talk
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
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
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Back Loud Move Perform Sing Way Wild
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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Arthur Badly Beatniks Good People Port Texas
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
I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Confusion Different Full Hard Hurt Kid Lot Thing
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
I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
JANIS JOPLIN

Hate Nigger Painted Read
That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Game Inside Myself People Person Play True
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Beer Bottle Gimme Humorous Pigfoot
I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Being Weird Kind One People Regular
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Destroying Enjoy More Music Thinking
What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
JANIS JOPLIN

Control Essence Learn Lose Perspective Succes

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