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Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

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
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Singer-Songwriter
Port Arthur
Texas
Janis Lyn Joplin
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Mercedes
Amends
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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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