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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.

Janis Joplin

The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
JANIS JOPLIN

Action Consequence Happen Implication Result Screw
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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Before Exploded Happened Moving Rock Simple Sing Sung
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
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
I’m one of those regular weird people.
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Being Weird Kind One People Regular
All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Feeling Matter Music Playing Really Sound
And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
JANIS JOPLIN

Anything Brain Man Minute Sort Switch
Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Audience Destroying Enjoy More Music Thinking
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLIN

Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
JANIS JOPLIN

Mine Single Tomorrow Trade Yesterday
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
I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Meaning Over Redding Rhythmically Singing Song
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Ideas Second Themselves Thought Win
I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Application Believe Equality Experience People Test Truly Twin
I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
JANIS JOPLIN

Drink Thinking Too Much
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?’
JANIS JOPLIN

Asked Backstage Man Marry Old Opera Real Some Story Thinking Took

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