Ani Difranco Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

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.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

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 do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

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

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

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

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

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

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

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.

My songs are just little letters to me.

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

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

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

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.

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

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

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

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

They taught me different was wrong.

We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

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.