The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLINAll you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.
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Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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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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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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Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I’m destroying myself.
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Don’t go looking for Mr. Right. Look for Mr. Right Now.
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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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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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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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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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Oh, Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz – My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
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