quotes by Ani DiFranco

""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.""
— Ani DiFranco

"I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off."
— Ani DiFranco

"Taken out of context, I must seem so strange
"
— Ani DiFranco (Ani Difranco: Verses)

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

"I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes."
— Ani DiFranco

"I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive. "
— Ani DiFranco

"Maybe you don't like your job. Maybe you didn't get enough sleep. Nobody likes their job; nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life. You know there's no escape and there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice."
— Ani DiFranco (Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle)

"The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world. "
— Ani DiFranco

"I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to make right. Where so many cunning sons and daughters, our foremothers and forefathers came singing through slaughter, came through hell and high water so that we could stand here, and behold breathlessly the sight; how a raging river of tears cut a grand canyon of light. Why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists, out of respect for those that fought for this?"
— Ani DiFranco

"and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back"
— Ani DiFranco

"we can't afford to do anyone harm
because we owe them our lives
each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs
are enemies are the very air in disguise

you can talk a great philosophy
but if you can't be kind to people
every day
it doesn't mean that much to me
it's the little things you do
the little things you say
it's the love you give along the way"
— Ani DiFranco

"spring is super in the supermarkets
and the strawberries prance and glow
never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless
as strawberries go
meanwhile wild things are not for sale
anymore than they are for show
so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty
it takes more than eyes to know"
— Ani DiFranco

""fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows""
— Ani DiFranco

"If more people were screamin', I could relax."
— Ani DiFranco

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

"Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you."
— Ani DiFranco

"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

" i do it for the joy it brings
because i'm a joyful girl
because the world owes me nothing
and we owe each other the world
"
— Ani DiFranco

"When I look down, I miss all the good stuff
And when I look up, I just trip over things..."
— Ani DiFranco (Ani DiFranco - Little Plastic Castle)

"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

"I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap."
— Ani DiFranco

"ive played the powerless in to many dark scenes i was blessed with a birth and a death and i guess i just want some say i between"
— Ani DiFranco

"Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
Cause someday you might find you're starving
and eating all of the words you said.
"
— Ani DiFranco

"How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?"
— Ani DiFranco

"There's a paradox in every paradigm"
— Ani DiFranco

"We get a little further from perfection,
each year on the road,
I guess that's what they call character,
I guess that's just the way it goes,
better to be dusty than polished,
like some store window mannequin,
why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,
let me stain your hands"
— Ani DiFranco

"I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own."
— Ani DiFranco

"And god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
And god help you if you are a Pheonix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back."
— Ani DiFranco

"and half of learning to play is learning what not to play
and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say
and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves
and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove

she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home
and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone

up 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

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

"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

"Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon."
— Ani DiFranco

"I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands."
— Ani DiFranco

"And god help you if you are an ugly girl; course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

And god help you if you are a Pheonix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back.
"
— Ani DiFranco

"Squint your eyes
"
— Ani DiFranco

""...I try to laugh at whatever life brings...""
— Ani DiFranco

"I did not design this game. I just happen to like apples, and I am not afraid of snakes."
— Ani DiFranco