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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.

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
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Alone Fake Home Loneliness Lonely People Thousandm World
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.
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Always Beer Couple Except Somewhere Sudden Voice
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
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.
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Beer Couple Good Heavies Life Man Stoned Time Wanted
You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Emotion Feel Gigantic Multiple Once Thing Wear
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
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.
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Breakdown Distance Emotion Feeling Kill Relationship Sacrifice
You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Dishwasher Fighting Only Problem Somebody. Settle Want
When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Audience Band Boss Everything Like Magic Together
That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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All On Rock Roll Switch Turn
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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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…
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Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Audience Eye Look Need Talk
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
I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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Asked Backstage Man Marry Old Opera Real Some Story Thinking Took
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
To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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Bullshit Game Myself Person Play Trying
Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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Finding Love Look Mr Now Right
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
I love being a star more than life itself.
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Fame Itself Life Love More Star
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Ideas Second Themselves Thought Win
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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Bullshit Doing Feel Mad Settling Wanted Worked
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Chick Concert Ems Liberation Looking Show Thinking
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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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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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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