The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLINI started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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Distance cannot kill this relationship. Time cannot breakdown anything we have. This is a relationship that I am ready to sacrifice and stand up for.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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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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Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock ‘n’ roll band.
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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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I read, I painted, I didn’t hate niggers.
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All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
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That story hit me right, man. I know no guy ever made me feel as good as an audience. I’m really far into this now, really committed.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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Like, I don’t think I’d go off the road for long now, for life with a guy no matter how good. Yeah, it’s the truth. Scary thing to say though, isn’t it?
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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