Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLINThat’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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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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