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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.

Janis Joplin

I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
JANIS JOPLIN

Lady Old Quit Quitting Someone
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.
JANIS JOPLIN

Asked Blue heavy Like Mouths Opened You
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
My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
JANIS JOPLIN

Amount Bigger Bottom Incredible Ladder More Rock Want
It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
JANIS JOPLIN

Feeling Happy Learned Soul Unhappy
You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLIN

Better Compromise Got Happen Honesty
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
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
JANIS JOPLIN

Business End Enjoy Everything Fun Not Why
All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLIN

Girl Love Man Rock Roll Star
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
Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLIN

Amend Benz Buy Drive Friend Lord Make Porsche
That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
JANIS JOPLIN

Game Inside Myself People Person Play True
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
JANIS JOPLIN

Lot Much Only Settle Settling
After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
JANIS JOPLIN

Cashmere Country Feeding Grdle Mother Sweater Winning
I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Feel Really Sort Think Thinking Trying
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 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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