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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

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

Afterward Blue Die Like Miserable People Singer
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
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 would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
JANIS JOPLIN

Mine Single Tomorrow Trade Yesterday
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 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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Confusion Different Full Hard Hurt Kid Lot Thing
My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLIN

Amount Bigger Bottom Incredible Ladder More Rock Want
In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLIN

Feeling Hurt Inside Like Really Silly Story
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLIN

Business End Enjoy Everything Fun Not Why
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLIN

Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
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
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Anything Better Decide Maybe Trouble Want
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
That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
JANIS JOPLIN

All On Rock Roll Switch Turn
I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
JANIS JOPLIN

Hate Nigger Painted Read
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.

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