Janis Ian Quotes

I was born with this love for music, and I say 'born with' because I don't really remember a day waking up and deciding that I'm going do to music. It's been all I've ever done and all I've ever wanted to do.

Writing music is just something that I was born to do.

I've always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of - I just sung a lot.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has always been my deepest passion and what I felt most connected to.

Ralph Lemon is my idol. But music is my biggest passion. Frank Ocean's 'Pyramids' is on repeat. That kind of stuff with Frank Ocean makes me cry.

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.

I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.

I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

Music has always been in me.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

God told me, 'I gave you the music, Al. Sing the music I gave you - all the music.' So I did.

I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.

Music is always a creative process that comes from the heart. It's a feeling, a vibration, that we ride on.

I don't want people to think that I think I'm this great drummer because, to me, I'm just a kid playing drums, and I love music.

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.