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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.

Janis Joplin

I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Eye Look Need Talk
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLIN

Alone Fake Home Loneliness Lonely People Thousandm World
Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
JANIS JOPLIN

Decision Know Night One Rejection Stand Story
You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
JANIS JOPLIN

Dishwasher Fighting Only Problem Somebody. Settle Want
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
JANIS JOPLIN

Asked Backstage Man Marry Old Opera Real Some Story Thinking Took
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
It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
JANIS JOPLIN

Desire Like Make Planning Unhappiness Wish
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Existed Feel Good Mouth Open Something
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
JANIS JOPLIN

Hippie Jack Off Tired
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?
JANIS JOPLIN

Bullshit Doing Feel Mad Settling Wanted Worked
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
JANIS JOPLIN

Dam Feel Loving Screw Short Silence Someone Telling
I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
JANIS JOPLIN

Bad Good Passion Peace Quiet Rather Sing Sound
I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
JANIS JOPLIN

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
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
You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLIN

Feel Good Got Make You

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