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Janis Ian Quotes

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1951

Topics

Good Time Money Day Friends One Day

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

You I Can Take Going Show Sure

The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.

Night Believe Loved Down Go Want

Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.

Music Inclusive Arts Should

If you stay in this business long enough, you're liable to hit it big.

Business Enough Long You Big Stay

Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women.

Stephanie Coontz

Women Always Social Economic Model

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.

Mother Death Game Frustration Golf

I'm very private, not the interview type.

Interview Very Type Private

My trainer is with me all day. We train before I come to work, and then I just keep training all day.

Work Day Training Me Train Trainer

I was supposed to fight a guy back in the day. He didn't shower, specifically to throw off his opponents. Thank God I got injured, and I couldn't fight the fight. I was so worried about it. I was like, 'Oh my God - I heard about this guy.' It was the worst ever.

God Day Fight Thank God Back Worst

I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.

Hat Space People World Think Done

I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who the hell wants to be happy all the time? It's a miserable state to be in permanently. Can you imagine how dreary that would be?

Christopher Plummer

Time Happy Be Happy Hell You Play

I majored in illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design, although I never had any intention of being an illustrator and didn't take any classes in illustration there. It was just that the illustration degree had no requirements.

School Design Intention Island Never

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