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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.

Janis Joplin

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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Dam Feel Loving Screw Short Silence Someone Telling
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
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
You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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Better Compromise Got Happen Honesty
If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Affection Attachment Giving Love Philosophy Someone
I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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Before Exploded Happened Moving Rock Simple Sing Sung
I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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Mine Single Tomorrow Trade Yesterday
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
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-
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Down Man Rock Roll Sitting Smile Sweaty Thinking
All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Feeling Matter Music Playing Really Sound
You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Black False Myth People Racism Soul Stuck Themselves White
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
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Application Believe Equality Experience People Test Truly Twin
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
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
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
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Audience Blue Miserable Music Sadness Singer
I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
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Feel Inspirational Music Much Soul Want
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
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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Business End Enjoy Everything Fun Not Why
Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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Action Chick Eye Getting Honey Piece Trying
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.
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Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw
I love being a star more than life itself.
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Fame Itself Life Love More Star
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’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
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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Know Least Nouns Object Objects Plural Retract
The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Expression Grape Older Sweeter Wine

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