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.
JANIS JOPLINThe older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I won’t quit to become someone’s old lady.
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I would trade all my tomorrow’s for one single yesterday.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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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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At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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Like most girls I’m always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I’m weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.
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Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.
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Maybe they’ll have a second thought – that they can be themselves and win.
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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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That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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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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It’s not what isn’t, it’s what you wish was that makes unhappiness.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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