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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
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Port Arthur
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Janis Lyn Joplin
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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 believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I'm one of those regular weird people.
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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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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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I'm not really thinking much... Just sort of, trying to feel.
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I won't quit to become someone's old lady.
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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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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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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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When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
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You got to get it while you can.
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