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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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Port Arthur
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Janis Lyn Joplin
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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 can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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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 love being a star more than life itself.
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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 can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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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'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You got to get it while you can.
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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