Ani DiFranco
59 quotes
Biography
"Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."
"If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up"
"I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.."
"In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all."
"I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now."
"I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try."
"Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right."
"I am still praying for revolution."
"Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times."
"And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range."
"If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care."
"Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now."
"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between."
"I still define myself by the places that I've been."
"I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess."
"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant."
"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."
"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 may imitate life, but life imitates TV."
"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."
"A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion."
"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between."
"I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context."
"I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way."
"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."