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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.

Janis Joplin

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
And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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Anything Better Decide Maybe Trouble Want
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Audience Destroying Enjoy More Music Thinking
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
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
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.
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Beautiful Conscious Fat Girl Leg Man Most Self Shaped Short
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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Meaning Over Redding Rhythmically Singing Song
To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Bullshit Game Myself Person Play Trying
You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Black False Myth People Racism Soul Stuck Themselves White
If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Day Happen Same Today Tomorrow Wear Wisdom
Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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Anything Ca Happen Minute Minutes Waiting
It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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Free Work Working Hard Worth
You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Home People Play Seeing Stay Tired Town
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
.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.
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Getting Gonna Keep Now Today Twenty Year
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Answer Inspirational Intellectual Question Strong Woman

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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