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Janis Joplin

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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You got to get it while you can.
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Afford Can Got Inspire Positive You
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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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Asked Blue heavy Like Mouths Opened You
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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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
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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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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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’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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Audience Blue Miserable Music Sadness Singer
In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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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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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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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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