Ani DiFranco Quotes

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

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.

When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

Fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows

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

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

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

...I try to laugh at whatever life brings...

I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

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.

Imagine you're a girl,
just trying to finally come clean,
knowing full well they'd prefer you
were dirty and smiling.

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

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.

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

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

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff
And when I look up, I just trip over things ...

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..

We've got ego's like hairdos.

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?

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

I have earned my disillusionment.

Up up up up up up
points the spire of the steeple
but god's work isn't done by god
it's done by people

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.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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.

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.'

Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.

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

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.

At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.

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

Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.

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)

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

I will not be afraid to let my talent shine.

What doesn't bend, breaks.

I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give.

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

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

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

And I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

I still define myself by the places that I've been.

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.

I am 32 flavors and then some.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.

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

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.

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.

Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

Those who call the shots are never in the line of fire.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

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

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

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?

I found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

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.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about?

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

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

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

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.

I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless ...

I am still praying for revolution.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

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.

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.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

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

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

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

Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall.

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