Ani DiFranco Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Loses

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

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• I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

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  War, Fighting, Tools

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

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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.

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  Smile, Eye, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Lying, Truth Will Set You Free, Land

  Song: Promised Land, Album: Evolve, 2003

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• I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

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  Thinking, Years, Swings

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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• I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.

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  Believe, Thinking, Roots

  Interview with Mary Ann Rossoni, get-ri.com. September 1, 2015.

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

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  Fun, Having Fun

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• You rhapsodize about beauty,
  and my eyes glaze.
  Everything that I love is ugly.
  I mean really, you would be amazed.
  Just do me a favor,
  it's the least that you can do,
  just don't treat me like I am
  something that happened to you.

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  Mean, Eye, Love Is

  Song: Adam And Eve

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• I have earned my disillusionment.

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  Philosophy, Disillusionment

  Song: Not A Pretty Girl Complete Album, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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• I am still praying for revolution.

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  Revolution, Praying, Stills

  Song: Fixing Her Hair, Album: Imperfectly

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

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  Heartless, Survivor, Chalk

  Song: Not A Pretty Girl Complete Album, Album: Not a Pretty Girl

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• When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.

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  Missing, Looks, Stuff

  Ani DiFranco (2011). “Ani DiFranco: Verses”, p.24, Seven Stories Press

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

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  Army, Mediocrity, Hours

  Song: Not So Soft

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• To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

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  Two, Splits, Radical

  Song: Reprieve, Album: Reprieve, 2006

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

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  Heart, People, Boots

  Song: Outta Me, Onto You, Album: Dilate

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• I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

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  Thinking, Grace, Dollars

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

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  Proud, Facts, Seems

  Song: Grey, Album: Revelling / Reckoning, 2001

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• [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.

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  People, Culture, Taste

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• When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

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  Music, Country, Growing Up

  Song: Animal, Album: Educated Guess, 2004

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• And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

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  Fall, Men, Mind

  Song: Every Angle, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.

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  Thinking, Hands, Space

  Song: Dilate Complete Album, Album: Dilate, 1996

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• Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

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  Memories, Animal, Castles

  Song: Little Plastic Castle, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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

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  Shut Up

  Song: Outta Me, Onto You, Album: Dilate

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

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  Life, Done, Shows

  Song: Imperfectly, Album: Imperfectly

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