Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLINMaybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Texas 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.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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You are what you settle for.
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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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I don’t know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what ‘soul’ is all about.
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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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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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If I hold back, I’m no good. I’m no good. I’d rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.
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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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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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