Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLINTexas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it’s not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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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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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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I’d rather not sing than sing quiet.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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