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A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
- Janis Ian
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#Did
#Me
#Radio
#Show
Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.
- Janis Ian
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#Me
#More
#Road
#Time
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.
- Janis Ian
#Black And White
#Black
#Home
#Society
I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's problems would be solved and everyone would be getting along fine. And instead we saw that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated that year, Robert F. Kennedy died. We saw that it was going to be a lot more difficult than I think we had thought.
- Janis Ian
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#More
#Problems
#World
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.
- Janis Ian
#Humble
#Music
#Song
#Thinking
#Time
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
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#Listening
#Music
#School
#White
Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
- Janis Ian
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#People
#Some People
#Stay
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
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#Good
#Money
#One Day
#Time
I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
- Janis Ian
#Born
#Coming
#Feel
#Me
#Music
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
#Love
#Mean
#Right
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
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#Better
#Life
#Worst
#Yourself
It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.
- Janis Ian
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#Finally
#I Am
#I Can
#Point
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.
- Janis Ian
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#Gay
#I Am
#People
#Security
Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
- Janis Ian
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#Home
#Know
#Rest
#Way
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.
- Janis Ian
#Beauty
#High School
#Love
#School
#Truth
#Young
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.
- Janis Ian
#Day
#End Of The Day
#End
#Hope
#Life
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