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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

If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLIN

Dishwasher Much Own Problem Settle Somebody
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
.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
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLIN

Benz Buy Car Dream Lord Materialism Mercedes Benz Passion
Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Blue Miserable Music Sadness Singer
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
JANIS JOPLIN

Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
You are what you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN

Dream Hope Makeover Settle Settling Wish
Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
JANIS JOPLIN

Breakdown Distance Emotion Feeling Kill Relationship Sacrifice
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
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
JANIS JOPLIN

Alone Fake Home Loneliness Lonely People Thousandm World
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
JANIS JOPLIN

Hippie Jack Off Tired
You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLIN

Feel Good Got Make You
All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLIN

Girl Love Man Rock Roll Star
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
JANIS JOPLIN

Compromised Game Happened Play Really Success Texas Thing Whole
Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
JANIS JOPLIN

Always Beer Couple Except Somewhere Sudden Voice
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLIN

Drink Thinking Too Much
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
Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
JANIS JOPLIN

Finding Love Look Mr Now Right
I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
JANIS JOPLIN

Hate Nigger Painted Read
As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
JANIS JOPLIN

Back Gonna Good Philosophy Right World
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
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
All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
JANIS JOPLIN

Feeling Matter Music Playing Really Sound
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
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Eye Look Need Talk
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-
JANIS JOPLIN

Down Man Rock Roll Sitting Smile Sweaty Thinking
All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beer Couple Good Heavies Life Man Stoned Time Wanted

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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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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