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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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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.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
Janis Joplin
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
Janis Joplin
At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.
Janis Joplin
People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.
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What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music.
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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.
Janis Joplin
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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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 love being a star more than life itself.
Janis Joplin
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
You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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