#gh

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 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 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. ↗

— Janis Ian

#europe #god #having #her #i

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

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. ↗

— Janis Ian

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #congress #doing

'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important. ↗

— Janis Ian

#child #doing #first #hard #i

Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success. ↗

— Vanilla Ice

#enjoy #everybody #got #honestly #i

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#about #buried #decency #get #healthy

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#majority #may #minority #right #wrong

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#community #everyone #helm #like #ought