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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

Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Ideas Second Themselves Thought Win
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Alone Fake Home Loneliness Lonely People Thousandm World
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
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
You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Dishwasher Fighting Only Problem Somebody. Settle Want
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
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
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Benz Buy Car Dream Lord Materialism Mercedes Benz Passion
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
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.
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Control Essence Learn Lose Perspective Succes
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Audience Blue Miserable Music Sadness Singer
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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Compromised Game Happened Play Really Success Texas Thing Whole
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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Feel Feeling Much Soul Think
That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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All On Rock Roll Switch Turn
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Dam Feel Loving Screw Short Silence Someone Telling
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.
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Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw

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.

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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.

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