Janis Ian Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.”
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“Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.”
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“Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.”
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“I'm a huge Peter Mayer fan, but only when I don't feel like killing him for being so good. I love Peter's work, though it irritates me that he plays so much better than I do. If I rocked half as hard as Peter does, I'd own the world by now.”
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“I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.”
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“The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has.”
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“I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.”
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“I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.”
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“Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.”
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“Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.”
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“Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.”
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“I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.”
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“Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!”
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“I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.”
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“I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.”
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“I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.”
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“Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.”
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“Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.”
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“Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness?”
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“Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.”
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“At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.”
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“I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.”
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“I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.”
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“I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.”
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“I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.”
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“I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.”
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“I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before.”
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“I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.”
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“Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.”
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“Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.”
-- Janis Ian
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