Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
JANIS JOPLINI 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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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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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 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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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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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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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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