Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
JANIS JOPLINThe older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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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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People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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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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You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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The more you live, the less you die.
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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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They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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