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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Janis Joplin

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
You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
JANIS JOPLIN

Dishwasher Fighting Only Problem Somebody. Settle Want
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
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 don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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Feel Feeling Much Soul Think
When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
JANIS JOPLIN

Advice Gotta Hold Last Life Minute Somebody
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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Artist Chick Painted Read Stewardess Want Wanted Whatever
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
JANIS JOPLIN

Afterward Blue Die Like Miserable People Singer
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
They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Behind Charging Coming Man Musician Sound Threw
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?
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Good Long Matter Now Road Scary Truth Yeah
You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLIN

Afford Can Got Inspire Positive You
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
I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
JANIS JOPLIN

Hate Nigger Painted Read
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLIN

Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
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

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