The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLINWhen you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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When everything is together – the band, me, the audience, it’s boss! It’s just like magic.
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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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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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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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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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That’s what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.
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I think I think too much. That’s why I drink!
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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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You can’t stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.
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Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
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You’re only as much as you settle for. If they settle for being somebody’s dishwasher that’s their own f***ing problem.
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