Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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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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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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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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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 out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-
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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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