Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLINIf someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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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 least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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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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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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