Ani DiFranco famous quotes

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

#Positivity #Trying #Just Do It

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

#Strength #Differences #Diversity

I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Heart #Sadness #Mind

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending...
-- Ani DiFranco

#Sound #Looks #Wonder

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

#Beauty #Moving #Causes

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

#Eye #Glasses #Soul

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Heartless #Chalk

When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Years #Orange #Individuality

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Inspiring #Determination #Self

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

#Mirrors #Able #Faces

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

#Faces #Mystery #Stranger

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

#Inspirational #Needs #Hold Me

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'
-- Ani DiFranco

#Feminist #Sexist #Boxes

I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is surely the moment when a lot of women finally understand the depth of their power. You think it can’t possibly be done, you think you can’t possibly take the pain, and then you do-—and afterward you look at yourself in a whole new way. If you can do that, you can do anything.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Pain #Believe #Thinking

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Life #Art #Inspire

The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal...
-- Ani DiFranco

#Children #Animal #Feminist

I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Way #Causes #Missions

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Teacher #Pain #Views

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.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Jobs #Nice #Sleep

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

#Fighting #Rolling #Occupy Movement

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.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Girl #Hatred #Secret

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

#Love #Music #Piano

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Honesty #Taken #Strange

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

#Mean #Connections #Punk

I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to make right. Where so many cunning sons and daughters, our foremothers and forefathers came singing through slaughter, came through hell and high water so that we could stand here, and behold breathlessly the sight; how a raging river of tears cut a grand canyon of light. Why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists, out of respect for those that fought for this?
-- Ani DiFranco

#Country #Daughter #Mean

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.'
-- Ani DiFranco

#Stars #Rocks #Fans

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

#Relationship #Funny Relationship #Bad Relationship

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

#Eye #Mirrors #Looks

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

#Wall #Blow #Wind

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.
-- Ani DiFranco

#World

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.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Sex #Sleep #Night

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Gun #Shoes #People

a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned
-- Ani DiFranco

#Order #Lessons #Clarity

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

#Government #Talking #Imagination

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

#Lying #Land #Trying

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

#Inspiration #Focus #Defense

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

#Pain #Rain #Book

Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Expression #Someday #Hungry

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Expression #Silence #Avoiding

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Running #Lame #Want

i fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change...
-- Ani DiFranco

#Love #Life #Fighting

I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Who I Am #Voice #Differences

Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Girl #Eye #Ambition

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
-- Ani DiFranco

#Art #Perfect #Aloof

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -
-- Ani DiFranco

#Inspiring #Answers

If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Mirrors

You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Death #Heart #Laughing

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

#Real #Causes #Study

[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

#People #Culture #Taste

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Moving #Thinking #Labels

I am a work in progress dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Expression #Progress #Fabric

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

#Philosophy #Tunnels #Light

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

#Girl #Philosophy #Blood

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

#Philosophy #People #Done

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

#Bored #Feelings #Unanswered Questions

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

#Philosophy #Sunset #West

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Philosophy #Satisfaction #Chaos

Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Philosophy #Law #Angle

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

#Sex #Lying #Bed

I have earned my disillusionment.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Philosophy #Disillusionment

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

#Philosophy #Names #Want

I am 32 flavors and then some.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Expression #Flavor

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Work #Mind #Bail

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.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Girl #Wise #Evil

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

#Education #Ignorance #Envy

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Education #Brain #Facts

What doesn't bend, breaks.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Insanity #Break

No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Politics #Crash

Feel free to listen, feel free to stare.
-- Ani DiFranco

#Philosophy #Staring #Feels

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

#Sleep #Hands #Waiting

spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know
-- Ani DiFranco

#Spring #Eye #Mind