Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
JANIS JOPLINThe older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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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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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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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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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody, it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.
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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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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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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
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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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I believe the only people who truly experience and test the application of equality are twins.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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What we’ve had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we’re doing – the music.
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