Top 100 Difranco Quotes
#1. I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
P. J. O'Rourke
#2. I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.
Billy Boyd
#3. An avowed feminist activist and an outspoken bisexual, DiFranco has been candid about the necessity of women musicians identifying with the F-word. "Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist," she once wrote. "There is no box marked 'other'".
Marisa Meltzer
#4. And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones.
Jennifer Garner
#5. I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.
Ani DiFranco
#6. There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.
Ani DiFranco
#8. Science chases money
and money chases its tail
and the best minds of my generation can't make bail.
But the bacteria are coming
that's my prediction.
It's the answer to this culture
of the quick-fix prescription.
Ani DiFranco
#9. Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)
Ani DiFranco
#10. I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
Ani DiFranco
#11. There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.
Ani DiFranco
#12. I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind;
I want somebody who has a tortured soul ... some of the time
Ani DiFranco
#13. 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.
Ani DiFranco
#14. Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Ani DiFranco
#15. 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
Ani DiFranco
#16. I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
Ani DiFranco
#17. [The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.
Ani DiFranco
#18. A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
Ani DiFranco
#19. The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.
Ani DiFranco
#20. I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give.
Ani DiFranco
#21. How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?
Ani DiFranco
#22. I got highways for stretchmarks
See where I've grown.
Ani DiFranco
#23. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
Ani DiFranco
#24. I mean, what
What if no one's watching
What if when we're dead
We are just dead
I mean, what
What if it's just us down here
What if God is just an idea
Someone put in your head
Ani DiFranco
#25. But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem
Ani DiFranco
#26. I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
Ani DiFranco
#27. 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
#28. I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,
Ani DiFranco
#30. Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.
Ani DiFranco
#31. 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.
Ani DiFranco
#32. I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
Ani DiFranco
#33. Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!
Ani DiFranco
#34. There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.
Ani DiFranco
#35. What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?
Ani DiFranco
#36. Imagine you're a girl,
just trying to finally come clean,
knowing full well they'd prefer you
were dirty and smiling.
Ani DiFranco
#37. Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.
Ani DiFranco
#38. Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.
Ani DiFranco
#39. I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style.
Ani DiFranco
#40. If you're not angry, then you're just stupid, you don't care. How else can you react when something's so unfair?
Ani DiFranco
#41. 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.
Ani DiFranco
#42. When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.
Ani DiFranco
#43. And honesty is the hardest part
yeah honesty is the highest art
and honestly i myself just started
and eureka i'm less broken-hearted
Ani DiFranco
#44. Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
Ani DiFranco
#45. Vulnerability is something that I negotiate every day.
Ani DiFranco
#46. Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.
Ani DiFranco
#47. One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
Ani DiFranco
#48. They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie ... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.
Ani DiFranco
#49. 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
#50. Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Ani DiFranco
#51. Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.
Ani DiFranco
#52. I found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right
Ani DiFranco
#53. And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
Ani DiFranco
#54. If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up
Ani DiFranco
#55. My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.
Ani DiFranco
#56. And god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back
Ani DiFranco
#57. You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.
Ani DiFranco
#59. When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game.
Ani DiFranco
#60. Because the world owes me nothing, and we owe each other the world.
Ani DiFranco
#61. I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.
Ani DiFranco
#62. I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.
Ani DiFranco
#63. Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?
Ani DiFranco
#64. 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.'
Ani DiFranco
#65. Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.
Ani DiFranco
#66. I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.
Ani DiFranco
#67. 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
#69. I still define myself by the places that I've been.
Ani DiFranco
#70. It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.
Ani DiFranco
#71. Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.
Ani DiFranco
#72. My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
Ani DiFranco
#73. I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real.
Ani DiFranco
#74. Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.
Ani DiFranco
#75. To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do
Ani DiFranco
#76. I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.
Ani DiFranco
#77. Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco
#78. 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.
Ani DiFranco
#79. Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.
Ani DiFranco
#80. In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.
Ani DiFranco
#82. The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.
Ani DiFranco
#83. There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
Ani DiFranco
#85. I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..
Ani DiFranco
#86. I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
Ani DiFranco
#87. If more people were screamin', I could relax.
Ani DiFranco
#88. Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
Ani DiFranco
#89. I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn't perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.
Ani DiFranco
#90. Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.
Ani DiFranco
#91. Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.
Ani DiFranco
#92. You rhapsodize about beauty,
and my eyes glaze.
Everything that I love is ugly.
I mean really, you would be amazed.
Just do me a favor,
it's the least that you can do,
just don't treat me like I am
something that happened to you.
Ani DiFranco
#93. All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.
Ani DiFranco
#94. It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and we hold these truths to be self evident number one George W Bush is not president. Number two America isn't a true democracy. And number three the media is not fooling me.
Ani DiFranco
#95. Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.
Ani DiFranco
#96. Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ani DiFranco
#97. Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'
Ani DiFranco
#98. I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.
Ani DiFranco
#99. People talk about my image like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind.
Ani DiFranco
#100. Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
Ani DiFranco
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