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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

Janis Joplin

When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
JANIS JOPLIN

Audience Band Boss Everything Like Magic Together
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Existed Feel Good Mouth Open Something
You got to get it while you can.
JANIS JOPLIN

Afford Can Got Inspire Positive You
Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
JANIS JOPLIN

Left Man Nothing People Person
I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
JANIS JOPLIN

Everywhere Important Out Person Singer Singing Sort Started Street
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Call People Point Someone Touch
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
JANIS JOPLIN

Chick Concert Ems Liberation Looking Show Thinking
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN

Lot Much Only Settle Settling
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
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLIN

Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
JANIS JOPLIN

Down Man Rock Roll Sitting Smile Sweaty Thinking
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Confusion Different Full Hard Hurt Kid Lot Thing
It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLIN

Free Work Working Hard Worth
Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
JANIS JOPLIN

Beer Bottle Gimme Humorous Pigfoot
I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
JANIS JOPLIN

Arthur Badly Beatniks Good People Port Texas
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

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