Ani DiFranco Quotes

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

I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

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

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

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

Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.

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.

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.

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

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

For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.

The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

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

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

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

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

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

I am 32 flavors and then some.

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

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

What doesn't bend, breaks.

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

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

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.

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

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.

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

I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?