Ani Difranco – Quotes Crazy

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we dont talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when its the superstructure of human society. – Ani DiFranco

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, its not because Im a hero. – Ani DiFranco

Pop stardom is not very compelling. Im much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and theres no pomp and circumstance to the performance. Theres no, like, Ill be the rock star, you be the adulating fan. – Ani DiFranco

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because theyre both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally. – Ani DiFranco

Maybe you dont like your job, maybe you didnt get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, theres no escape, theres no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. – Ani DiFranco

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, theres nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. – Ani DiFranco

God forbid you be an ugly girl, course too pretty is also your doom, cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room. – Ani DiFranco

Id rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. – Ani DiFranco

I hate it when people dont recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to mens work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal – mens writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. – Ani DiFranco

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women dont 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 its a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. – Ani DiFranco

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you dont have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes theres poetry written right on the bathroom wall. – Ani DiFranco

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I dont think its fair that Im living for something I cant even define. – Ani DiFranco

Men make angry music and its called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly theyre angry and militant. – Ani DiFranco

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. – Ani DiFranco

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

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial. – Ani DiFranco

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between. – Ani DiFranco

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. – Ani DiFranco

My songs are just little letters to me. – Ani Difranco

When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wrong. – Ani Difranco