Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLINYou know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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If someone comes along, gonna give you some love and affection, I say get it while you can.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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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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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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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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