Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
JANIS JOPLINThe more you live, the less you die.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
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Don’t compromise your self, you’re all you got.
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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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When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
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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 feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?
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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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You know you’ve got it, if it makes you feel good.
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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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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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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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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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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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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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