Ani DiFranco Quotes

We have to be able to criticize what we love,
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.

Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

You know
Taken out of context I must
Seem so strange.

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

People used to make records,
as in the record of an event,
the event of people playing music
in a room

Now everything is cross marketing.
It's about sunglasses and shoes,
or guns and drugs.
You choose.

You have to be able to access the profoundly spiritual understanding that people’s actions, even their very identity, are not the whole truth of who they are.

I think I'm done gunnin to get closer.
To some imagined bliss.
I gotta knuckle down.
And just be ok with this.

Fear is inky. Fear stains the white sheet of consciousness that one comes swaddled in and no amount of earthly scrubbing can make it completely clean again.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.

My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration
Against this slow deflation
Yeah the further the horizon
The more it holds my gaze
The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase
Just a phase.

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 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.

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