Janis Ian Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.”