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.
JANIS JOPLINLife 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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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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.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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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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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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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