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Janis Ian
Janis Ian
American Musician
Born: Apr 7, 1951
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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
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Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied. Janis Ian
People Some People Would Stay Some Rather Ignorant
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 Will Somebody Superior Those Backward Feel Always Just Ignorant Who Need
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
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Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer. Janis Ian
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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. Janis Ian
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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. Janis Ian
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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
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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
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted. Janis Ian
Music Me Born Something Feel Coming Wasted
That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. Janis Ian
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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. Janis Ian
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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
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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
Love God Joan Would Having Knows Mean Europe Now Her Right Career
'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
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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. Janis Ian
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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. Janis Ian
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A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me. Janis Ian
Beautiful Me Did Show Eulogy Radio Recently
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. Janis Ian
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