The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLINTo be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.
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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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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
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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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I’m tired of all these hippie jack-offs
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They asked me, How did you learn to sing the blues like that? How did you learn to sing that heavy? I just opened my mouth and that’s what I sounded like.
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When I sing, I feel like when you’re first in love. It’s more than sex.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
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You got to get it while you can.
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Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
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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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