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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Janis Joplin

I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
JANIS JOPLIN

Describe Inside Singing Something Talk
You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
JANIS JOPLIN

Feel Good Got Make You
Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
JANIS JOPLIN

Dam Feel Loving Screw Short Silence Someone Telling
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
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLIN

Benz Buy Car Dream Lord Materialism Mercedes Benz Passion
It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
JANIS JOPLIN

Free Work Working Hard Worth
I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about.
JANIS JOPLIN

Feel Inspirational Music Much Soul Want
I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
JANIS JOPLIN

Mine Single Tomorrow Trade Yesterday
I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
JANIS JOPLIN

Choice Gotta Man Party See Way Year
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
Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
JANIS JOPLIN

Ideas Second Themselves Thought Win
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
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
The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLIN

Expression Grape Older Sweeter Wine
Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
JANIS JOPLIN

Another Freedom Left Lose Nothing Word
They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
JANIS JOPLIN

Behind Charging Coming Man Musician Sound Threw

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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