Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLINMy father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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You got to get it while you can.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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