I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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 love being a star more than life itself.
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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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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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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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.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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