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Janis Joplin

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
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Drink Thinking Too Much
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Mediocre Now Sound Twenties Twenty Year
They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Behind Charging Coming Man Musician Sound Threw
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.
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Existed Feel Good Mouth Open Something
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
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
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
The more you live, the less you die.
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Death Die Less Life More
I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Hippie Jack Off Tired
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLIN

Ideas Second Themselves Thought Win
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
My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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Amount Bigger Bottom Incredible Ladder More Rock Want
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
.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
In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
JANIS JOPLIN

Feeling Hurt Inside Like Really Silly Story

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