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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
Materialism
Lord
Benz
Mercedes
Amends

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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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You got to get it while you can.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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I can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE.
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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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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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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 least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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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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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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