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.

Janis Joplin
One good man,
Oh ain't much, honey ain't much,
It's only everything...

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An' I don't want much outa life,
I never wanted a mansion in the south.
I just-a want to find someone sincere
Who'd treat me like he talks,
One good man.

Janis Joplin
When Newsweek magazine didn't put her photo on the cover because of the death of ex-President Eisenhower:
Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In my week.

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Onstage I make love to twenty-five thousand people, then I go home alone.

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Down on me, down on me,
Looks like everybody in this whole round world Is down on me.

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Work me, lord. Please don't you leave me. I feel so useless down here with no one to love. Though I looked everywhere, and I can't find me anybody to love, to feel my care... So, work me lord, oh, use me lord. Can I show you how hard it is trying to live when you're all alone? Everyday I keep trying to move forward but something is driving me, oh, back. Something's trying to hold on to me, to my way of life. So, oh, don't you forget me down here lord, no no no no no, don't you forget me, lord. Well I don't think I'm any very special kind of person down here, I know better. But I don't think you're gonna find anybody, not anybody who can say that they tried like I tried. The worst that you can say all about me is that I'm never satisfied...

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Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.

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Music's for grooving man, and music's not for puttin' yourself through bad changes, y'know? I mean, you don't have to go take anybody's shit, man, just to like music, y'know what I mean? You don't. So... so if you're getting' more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y'know, it's just music. Music's... music's s'posed to be different than that.

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It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

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Honey, I love to go to parties,
And I like to have a good time,
But if it gets too pale after a while
Honey and I start looking to find
One good man.

Janis Joplin