The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.
JANIS JOPLINLife is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw]
More Janis Joplin Quotes
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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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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don’t know how to perform any other way.
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Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things aren’t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.
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You know why we’re stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don’t let themselves feel things.
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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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I’m one of those regular weird people.
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To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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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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You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.
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In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.
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I’m not really thinking much… Just sort of, trying to feel.
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Don’t you know that you’re nothing more than a one night stand?
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I read a story about some old opera singer once, and when a guy asked her to marry him, she took him backstage after she had sung a real triumph, with all the people calling for her, asked, ‘Do you think you could give me that?’
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