Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
JANIS JOPLINThis 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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That was to be true to myself, to be the person that I…that was on inside of me and not play games.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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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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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
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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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