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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

Janis Joplin

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 JOPLIN

Beatnik Believe Better Get Hippie Place
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
Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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Emotional Experience Love Music Singing Somebody Supreme
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLIN

Compromise Encouraging Get Life Positive Yourself
.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
I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
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
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
If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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Back Good Hold Holding Rather Sometimes
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 have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Back Loud Move Perform Sing Way Wild
It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Desire Like Make Planning Unhappiness Wish
When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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Being First Love Music Point Sex Sing
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
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Beer Bottle Gimme Humorous Pigfoot
Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beautiful Conscious Fat Girl Leg Man Most Self Shaped Short

I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

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