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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

Janis Joplin

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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Answer Create Home Idea Intellectual Lonely Question Strong Women
Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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Amend Benz Buy Drive Friend Lord Make Porsche
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 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..
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Choice Gotta Man Party See Way Year
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
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.
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Control Essence Learn Lose Perspective Succes
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Benz Buy Car Dream Lord Materialism Mercedes Benz Passion
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
Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Emotional Experience Love Music Singing Somebody Supreme
.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
When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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Advice Gotta Hold Last Life Minute Somebody
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
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Compromise Encouraging Get Life Positive Yourself
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
Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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First Girl Guess Hippie might Pinup
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

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