Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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 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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You are what you settle for.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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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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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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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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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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