If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
JANIS JOPLINThe older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?
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You got to get it while you can.
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Man, there ain’t gonna be nothing left for Janis.
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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
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After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle [expletive deleted by the New York Times]
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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My father wouldn’t get us a TV, he wouldn’t allow a TV in the house.
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