Ani DiFranco Quotes - Page 4

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• We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

  Ani DiFranco

  Philosophy, Satisfaction, Chaos

  Song: Overlap, Album: Out Of Range

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Fun, Fall, Animal

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• Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.

  Ani DiFranco

  Smile, Eye, Thinking

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Sex, Lying, Bed

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Happy Life, Flirting, Looks

  Song: The Million You Never Made

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• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  Life, Perfect, Laughing

  Song: Hour Follows Hour, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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• I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

  Ani DiFranco

  Anger, Everyday, Trying

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Philosophy, People, Done

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Life, Important, Use

  Song: Pale Purple, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• 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

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Done, Steeples

  Song: Up Up Up Up Up Up, Album: Up Up Up Up Up Up

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• 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

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Fire, Schedules, Ends

  Song: Star Matter, Album: Red Letter Year, 2008

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• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  Men, World, Birth

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• Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

  Ani DiFranco

  Tools, Weapons, Ifs

  Ani DiFranco (2011). “Ani DiFranco: Verses”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Expression, Silence, Avoiding

  Song: The Story, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• 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

  Song: Good, Bad, Ugly, Album: Imperfectly

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• 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.

  Ani DiFranco

  Crazy, Needs, Succeed

  Song: Swan Dive, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• 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

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Fundamentals, Disease, Imbalance

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspirational, Needs, Hold Me

  Song: My I.Q, Album: Puddle Dive, 1993

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• 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

  Song: Good, Bad, Ugly, Album: Imperfectly

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Relationship, Letting You Go, I Can

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• I always feel I have to take a stand,
  And there's always someone on hand
  To hate me for standing there.
  I always feel I have to open my mouth,
  And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

  Ani DiFranco

  Hate, Hands, Mouths

  Song: What If No One's Watching, Album: Imperfectly

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• 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

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• I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

  Ani DiFranco

  Laughing, Trying

  Song: AS IS, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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