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Janis Joplin

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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.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Spoken on the live recording of "Piece Of My Heart" on "Cheap Thrills" (1968)
“To sing blues, you've got to be able to, ... be willing to, feel things.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pop Chronicles: Show 52 - The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. [Part 8], interview recorded 1968 July 13.
“Fourteen heart attacks and he had to die in my week. In MY week.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being shunted off the front page of Newsweek magazine by the late ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower following his death; New Musical Express interview, (12 April 1969); cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
“Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comments on a performance of "Ball and Chain" Festival Express (1970)
“Time keeps movin' on, Friends they turn away. I keep movin' on But I never found out why I keep pushing so hard the dream, I keep tryin to make it right Through another lonely day, whoaa.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dawn has come at last, Twenty-five years, honey just in one night, oh yeah. Well, Im twenty-five years older now So I know we can't be right And Im no better, baby, And I cant help you no more Than I did when just a girl.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aww, but it don't make no difference, baby, no, no, And I know that I could always try. It don't make no difference, baby, yeah, I better hold it now, I better need it, yeah, Im gonna use it till the day I die, whoa.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't expect any answers, dear, For I know that they don't come with age, no, no. Well, ain't never gonna love you any better, babe. And I'm never gonna love you right, So you'd better take it now, and right now.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh! But it don't make no difference, babe, hey, And I know that I could always try. Theres a fire inside everyone of us, You'd better need it now, I got to hold it, yeah, I better use it till the day I die.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One good man, Oh ain’t much, honey ain’t much, It’s only everything...”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You say that it's over baby, Lord, You say that it's over now, But still you hang around me, come on, Won't you move over.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know that I need a man, honey Lord, You know that I need a man, But when I ask you to you just tell me That maybe you can.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Please don'tcha do it to me babe, no! Please don'tcha do it to me baby, Either take this love I offer Or honey let me be.”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh yeah, make up your mind, honey, You're playing with me, hey hey hey, Make up your mind, darling, You're playing with me, come on now! Now either be my loving man, I said-a let me honey, let me be, yeah!”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends”
Janis Joplin (1943–1970) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mercedes Benz", co-written with Bob Neuwirth in 1970, inspired by the first line of a song by Michael McClure: "Come on, God, and buy me a Mercedes Benz.