It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am. Janis Ian More Quotes by Janis Ian More Quotes From Janis Ian 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. Janis Ian realizingthe-end-of-the-daygoes-on 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 worst-timesget-betteryears Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. Janis Ian librarianlibraryculture Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone. Janis Ian phonesgracehome 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 ignorantpeopleneeds I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs. Janis Ian mean-girlsdogteacher 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. Janis Ian couplehomechildren 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. Janis Ian worrypeoplethinking 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 realwritingtalking I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted. Janis Ian bornfeels I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking. Janis Ian irsguitarone-day 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 human-conditionlooksneeds That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. Janis Ian radiomomentsfirsts 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. Janis Ian artistwritingsong 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. Janis Ian realchildrenpeople 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. Janis Ian lawmissinghands 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 being-thereenoughyears 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. Janis Ian lazymusicianthinking 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 recordsgoallittles 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 confusingpoliticalpeople
