Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLINI won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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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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You are what you settle for.
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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