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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-

Janis Joplin

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
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
JANIS JOPLIN

Back Good Hold Holding Rather Sometimes
They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
JANIS JOPLIN

Asked Blue heavy Like Mouths Opened You
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLIN

Compromise Encouraging Get Life Positive Yourself
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
You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Feel Good Got Make You
Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
JANIS JOPLIN

Good Long Matter Now Road Scary Truth Yeah
I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLIN

Describe Inside Singing Something Talk
I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLIN

Feel Inspirational Music Much Soul Want
When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLIN

Advice Gotta Hold Last Life Minute Somebody
I love being a star more than life itself.
JANIS JOPLIN

Fame Itself Life Love More Star
.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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Getting Gonna Keep Now Today Twenty Year
Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLIN

Left Man Nothing People Person
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beatnik Believe Better Get Hippie Place
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
That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
JANIS JOPLIN

Bullshit Inside Mostly Person Trying World

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