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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 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 was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music. ↗

— Janis Ian

#because #black #called #charles #coolest

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. ↗

— Janis Ian

#better #i #i do #i write #make

'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

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. ↗

— Janis Ian

#best #better #decade #get #gets

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 of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it. ↗

— Janis Ian

#because #call #confusing #end #hinges