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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

Janis Joplin

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
I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Being Weird Kind One People Regular
Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Beatnik Believe Better Get Hippie Place
I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Bad Good Passion Peace Quiet Rather Sing Sound
You got to get it while you can.
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Afford Can Got Inspire Positive You
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
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
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
The more you live, the less you die.
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Death Die Less Life More
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
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?’
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Asked Backstage Man Marry Old Opera Real Some Story Thinking Took
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
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Lot Much Only Settle Settling
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Hippie Jack Off Tired
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Drink Thinking Too Much
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy

You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.

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