Janis Joplin Quotes

• Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz, My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

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• Never compromise yourself it is all you got.

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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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• Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to loose. Nothing, don’t mean nothing honey if it ain’t free. And feeling good was easy, Lord, when he played the blues. You know feeling good was good enough for me, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee.

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• She was electrifying. It was like she was channeling Bessie Smith or something.

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• Which showed that my interest in rock was not based in a vast knowledge of their work. It was about them.

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• Buried Alive in the Blues.

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• Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

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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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• Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

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• What’s happening never happens there.

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• One of my talking points will be the accident of geography.

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• Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.

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• It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’ s worth it!

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• Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

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• It’s gonna be a long hard drag, but we’ll make it.

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• I’m one of those regular weird people.

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• Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.

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• I’d trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

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• On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.

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Janis Joplin (21)

Birth:	19th January, 1943
Death:	4th October, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Singer

About

Janis Lyn Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. She was an American rock singer and songwriter. After releasing three albums, she died of an accidental heroin overdose at age 27. A fourth album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, a little more than three months after her death. Her albums list shown below: Pearl, In Concert(Live album), Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits(Live album), Live in Amsterdam, and Janis(Compilation album). Her songs list shown below: "Me and Bobby McGee", "Cry Baby", "A Woman Left Lonely", "Half Moon", "Ball and Chain", and "Try".

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