Janis Ian Quotes

• It’s neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

  Janis Ian

• I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that’s not something to be wasted.

  Janis Ian

• 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

• 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.

  Janis Ian

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Janis Ian

• 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

• I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

  Janis Ian

• I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

  Janis Ian

• Once you’re halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

  Janis Ian

• 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

• 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.

  Janis Ian

• Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

  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

Janis Ian (16)

Birth:	7th April, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Janis Ian was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and author who was most commercially successful in the 1960s and 1970s; her most widely recognized song, "At Seventeen", was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart. She has won two Grammy Awards, the first in 1975 for "At Seventeen" and the second in 2013 for Best Spoken Word Album, for her autobiography, Society's Child. Her albums list shown below: For All the Seasons of Your Mind, Between the Lines, Aftertones, Miracle Row, Night Rains, Restless Eyes, Uncle Wonderful, Revenge, Society's Child, Hunger, God & The FBI, Billie's Bones, Working Without a Net, and Folk Is the New Black. She has written several books include: Who Really Cares: Childhood Poems and Society's Child: My Autobiography.

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