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“There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.”
-- Janis Ian

#People #Ignorant #Needs
“That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.”
-- Janis Ian

#Radio #Firsts #Moments
“My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.”
-- Janis Ian

#Rights #Parent #Movement
“I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head...that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft... it's second nature.”
-- Janis Ian

#Real #Writing #Talking
“I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.”
-- Janis Ian

#Dog #Teacher #School
“I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.”
-- Janis Ian

#Kings #Thinking #Years
“When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.”
-- Janis Ian

#People #Political #Confusing
“When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.”
-- Janis Ian

#Goal #Records #Littles
“I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.”
-- Janis Ian

#Years #Being There #Enough
“I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.”
-- Janis Ian

#Born #Feels
“It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.”
-- Janis Ian

#Accepting #Neat
“The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.”
-- Janis Ian

#Years #Get Better #May
“I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career.”
-- Janis Ian

#Mean #Europe #Careers
“It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.”
-- Janis Ian

#Needs #Looks #Human Condition
“It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.”
-- Janis Ian

#Writing #People #Peers
“I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.”
-- Janis Ian

#Country #Son #Gay

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