Janis Ian Quotes

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

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• There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Music
  • Always
  • Star

• I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Night
  • Used
  • Owl

• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Men
  • Best
  • Land

• The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Star
  • Problems
  • Slave

• A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it's really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform - or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Night
  • Day
  • Easy

• I am not really brand-conscious; I pick out clothes that appeal to me regardless of the label, but I consider my style very American.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • American
  • Style
  • Conscious

• Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Great
  • King
  • Loved

• Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • World
  • Help
  • Parents

• Sometimes you do get caught up in the midst of becoming... a product, a brand, and not having a say in any of that.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • You
  • Sometimes

• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• Three thousand, it's just a number. It's just a game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Three
  • Number

• I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Look
  • Will
  • Dresses

• I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Risk
  • Year
  • Potential

• I always walk up the escalator on the Tube, and I live in a house with a lot of stairs, and that's good exercise, but you need more than that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Respect

• If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • War
  • House
  • Lost

• I was engrossed with the book, I was having difficulties with it, and I just didn't notice the years were going by.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Book

• I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

  

  DMX
  • Up
  • House
  • Attention

• The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • Alone

• Every industry has standards. For example, the motion picture camera, there are 2 or 3 film formats with a number of brackets and number of speed, a shooting speed that is standard. If we didn't have that, then some motion pictures will play back too slowly, and people would talk very slowly, and it will be bizarre.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • People
  • Picture

• As a dancer, you're told not to go into it for the money.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • Money

• When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

  

  Janis Ian