All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
JANIS JOPLINOh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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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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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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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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The more you live, the less you die.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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