Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLINDon’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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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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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I love being a star more than life itself.
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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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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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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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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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