Janis Ian Quotes
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Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
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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…
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I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.
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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…
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Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
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Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!
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Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.
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Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.
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Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
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Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.
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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…
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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
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I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
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It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.
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