Ani DiFranco Quotes

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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

Ani DiFranco
My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration
Against this slow deflation
Yeah the further the horizon
The more it holds my gaze
The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase
Just a phase.

Ani DiFranco
And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.

Ani DiFranco
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep—
But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.
Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;
Well, you know, there's no escape.
That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.

Ani DiFranco
I think you're the least fucked-up person I've ever met,
And that may be as close to the real thing as I'm ever gonna get.

Ani DiFranco
And their eyes are all asking
Are you in or are you out?
And I think, oh man
What is this about?
Tonight you can't put me
Up on any shelf
Cuz I came here alone
And I'm gonna leave by myself.

Ani DiFranco
I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

Ani DiFranco
The windows of my soul are made of one way glass
Don't bother looking into my eyes
If there's something you want to know - just ask.

Ani DiFranco
We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time,
When we're not just toeing the line.

Ani DiFranco
My thighs have been involved in many accidents,
And now I can't get insured,
And I don't need to be lured by you.
My cunt is built like a wound that won't heal,
And now you don't have to ask
Because you know how I feel.

Ani DiFranco
So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter
Serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water
And the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mall
And our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

Ani DiFranco
So I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile.
If I'm gonna go down, I'm gonna do it with style,
and you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess,
'Cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.

Ani DiFranco
They're gonna be mad at us.
They're gonna be mad at me and you.
They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.

Ani DiFranco
Life is a b movie.
It's stupid and it's strange,
A directionless story,
And the dialogue is lame.
But in the he said, she said,
Sometimes there's some poetry,
If you turn your back long enough,
And let it happen naturally.

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

Ani DiFranco
What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.

Ani DiFranco
You've got your whole life to do something,
And that's not very long.
So why don't you give me a call
When you're willing to fight
For what you think is real,
For what you think is right.

Ani DiFranco
Because I know the biggest crime
Is just to throw up your hands
And say This has nothing to do with me,
I just want to live as comfortably as I can.

Ani DiFranco
I think I'm done gunnin to get closer.
To some imagined bliss.
I gotta knuckle down.
And just be ok with this.

Ani DiFranco
I always feel I have to take a stand,
And there's always someone on hand
To hate me for standing there.
I always feel I have to open my mouth,
And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

Ani DiFranco
I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now.

Ani DiFranco
I remember now how our bright spring green deepened.
With the years the seasons changed,
And we were lush as the underside of August.

Ani DiFranco
They put you in your place, and they tell you to behave
But no one can be free until we're all on even grade.

Ani DiFranco
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't,
By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

Ani DiFranco
Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.
You know it doesn't seem fair,
That I'm living for something I can't even define.
And there you are right there, in the mean time.

Ani DiFranco