Janis Ian
Janis Ian
Janis Ianis an American singer-songwriter who was mostly active in the 1960s and 1970s; her most successful song, At Seventeen, was released as a single from her 1975 album Between the Lines which reached number 1 on the Billboard chart...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth7 April 1951
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
philosophy enemy doe
Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free.
wish weavers mary
Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!
guitar playing-guitar
I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
kings thinking years
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.
home phones grace
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
recently
A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.
the-end-of-the-day goes-on realizing
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.
library culture hallmark
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.
thinking worry people
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.
radio firsts moments
That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.
needs looks human-condition
It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.
song writing artist
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.
children real people
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.
children couple home
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.