Ani DiFranco Quotes

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I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

Ani DiFranco

Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

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I hate it when people don’t recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men’s work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal – men’s writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

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Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

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It’s great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it’s empowering, and it’s also humbling along the way.

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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I’m much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there’s no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There’s no, like, ‘I’ll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.’

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There isn’t much I have to say, that I wouldn’t rather just shut up and do.

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It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I’ve stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don’t worry too much about that.

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They taught me different was wrong.

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I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that’s exactly what happens.

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Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked ‘other.’

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I’ve been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

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You can’t start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

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I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

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I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word ‘marriage.’ Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.

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Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it’s only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and – you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

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Music has as many roles as people make it.

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I think I’m a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

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When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that ‘just say it’ attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it’s all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.

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In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

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I don’t care if they eat me alive, I’ve got better things to do then survive.

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People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

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God forbid you be an ugly girl, ‘course too pretty is also your doom, ’cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

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Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it’s one we rarely address because it’s so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

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I’ve been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the ’60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on ‘Mariachi.’

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Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it’s nice to have a little more job security in life now.

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When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you’re trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can’t go march on Washington.

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Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

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Someone’s got to be interested in how I feel, just because I’m here and I’m real.

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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

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We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say ’cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

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Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

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I don’t know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven‘t met any, and I’m kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

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Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

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Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

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A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous ‘girl power‘ sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it’s a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

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Feminism is not only for women It’s something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

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For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.

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I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

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Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it’s not because I’m a hero.

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