The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLINWait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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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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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.
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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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You got to get it while you can.
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I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn’t start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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