Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLINOh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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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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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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