I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
JANIS JOPLINOh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I gotta go on doin’ it the way I see it…I got no choice but to take it like I see it. I’m here to have a party while I’m on this earth..
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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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 love being a star more than life itself.
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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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