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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!

Janis Joplin

Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLIN

Left Man Nothing People Person
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLIN

Drink Thinking Too Much
Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
JANIS JOPLIN

Emotional Experience Love Music Singing Somebody Supreme
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
JANIS JOPLIN

Know Least Nouns Object Objects Plural Retract
.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
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
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
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLIN

Chick Concert Ems Liberation Looking Show Thinking
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
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLIN

Answer Inspirational Intellectual Question Strong Woman
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
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
JANIS JOPLIN

Dam Feel Loving Screw Short Silence Someone Telling
It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLIN

Free Work Working Hard Worth
The more you live, the less you die.
JANIS JOPLIN

Death Die Less Life More
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
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLIN

Affection Attachment Giving Love Philosophy Someone

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