Ani DiFranco Quotes

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands, Say, This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can...

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

I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back.

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

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

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.

If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?

Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

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.

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.'

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

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

I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.

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.

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

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

Vulnerability is something that I negotiate every day.

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.

My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their respect? Do I have their support? If the answer is "yes," then I'm doing ok.

Change the narrative, change the laws.

Some people's minds we're not going to change. But if we can't, we need to bring more positive voices into the discussion.

As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.

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

I'm home in New Orleans!

We need a radically truthful way to acknowledge reproductive freedom.

You've already put more than enough energy into worry. That's all women have been allowed to do, historically.

I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton.

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

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.

And what if there are no damsels in distress?What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down, whether or not you ever show up?

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.

I am not an angry girlBut it seems like I’ve got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find hard to hearThey chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear

I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head

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

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

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)

a lesson must be livedin order to be learnedand the clarity to see and stop this nowthat is what i've earned

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.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

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.