The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLINHoney, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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The more you live, the less you die.
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You got to get it while you can.
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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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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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And I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: ‘Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.’ Whoooooo! It’s life.
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I can’t talk about my singing; I’m inside it. How can you describe something you’re inside of?
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This whole thing that’s happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn’t yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?
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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.
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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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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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I got treated very badly in Texas. They don’t treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they’d never seen one and neither had I.
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It’s that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it’s gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.
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