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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]

Janis Joplin

When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
JANIS JOPLIN

Being First Love Music Point Sex Sing
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
It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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Call People Point Someone Touch
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
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLIN

Ideas Second Themselves Thought Win
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Arthur Badly Beatniks Good People Port Texas
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLIN

Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Mediocre Now Sound Twenties Twenty Year
Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
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Down Outrageous People Quietly Texas Thing Want
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Control Essence Learn Lose Perspective Succes
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
You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Adventure Destroy Motivational Positive Tomorrow
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Eye Look Need Talk
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLIN

Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
JANIS JOPLIN

Goddamn Seventy Sitting Superhypemost Watching Tv 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

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