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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

#away #contract #day #end #end of the day

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

#came #day #friends #good #good time

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

— Janis Ian

#coming #feel #i #i feel #i was born

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

#bands #gave #going #guitar #guitar lessons

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

#being #being there #enough #friends #get

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. ↗

— Janis Ian

#forward #gay #huge #i #i see

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that. ↗

— Janis Ian

#best #best work #concentrating #doing #go

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

#anything #doing #else #i #i think

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

#fiction #fiction writing #good #good luck #had

I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#day #every #every day #feed #i