Janis Ian Quotes & Sayings
37 most famous Janis Ian quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She's a 73 year old American musician born on Apr 7, 1951.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.”
“Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.”
“It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.”
“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 think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.”
“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.”
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