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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Janis Joplin

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Janis Joplin
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: January 19
Died: 1970
Died: October 4
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
Pearl
Amends
Materialism
Lord
Benz
Mercedes

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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] 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.
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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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. 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.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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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.
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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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