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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
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!
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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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I can't talk about my singing I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?
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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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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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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 just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.
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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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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn't like me. It's silly.
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You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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 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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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Don't go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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