Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLINI always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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You better not compromise yourself, it’s all you’ve got.
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