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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?

Janis Joplin

Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Finding Love Look Mr Now Right
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
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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Afterward Blue Die Like Miserable People 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
That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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Game Inside Myself People Person Play True
The more you live, the less you die.
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Death Die Less Life More
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
I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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Bad Good Passion Peace Quiet Rather Sing Sound
.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.
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Getting Gonna Keep Now Today Twenty Year
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
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Audience Destroying Enjoy More Music Thinking
That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Audience Feel Good Guy Made Man Right Story
I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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Describe Inside Singing Something Talk
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Back Good Hold Holding Rather Sometimes
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Hippie Jack Off Tired
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

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