Janis Ian Quotes
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.
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.
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.
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.
It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.
I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.
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.
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
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.
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.
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.
I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
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.
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.
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.
I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
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.
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.
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.
