110+ Ani Difranco Quotes On Every Corner, Tour And Siriusxm

Ani Difranco is an American singer-songwriter who is known for her folk-rock and indie-rock music. She is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and has released over 20 albums since 1990. She is also an outspoken feminist and social activist, often using her music to express her views. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ani Difranco on love, every corner, tour.

Top 10 Ani Difranco Quotes

1. 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.
2. One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
3. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.
4. We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.
5. We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
6. I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.
7. I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.
8. We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.
9. I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me - I am just like everybody else.
10. Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Ani Difranco Short Quotes

• If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -
• I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
• Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.
• If more people were screamin', I could relax.
• I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
• In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
• 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.
• Birth is the epicenter of women's power
• Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.
• I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

Ani Difranco Quotes About Love

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

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music. — Ani Difranco

Love isn't over when the sheets are stained. — Ani Difranco

Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in. — Ani Difranco

Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you. — Ani Difranco

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this. — Ani Difranco

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today. — Ani Difranco

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change. — Ani Difranco

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. — Ani Difranco

As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with. — Ani Difranco

Ani Difranco Quotes About Guitar

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks. — Ani Difranco

I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous. — Ani Difranco

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it. — Ani Difranco

Ani Difranco Quotes About Learned

Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times. — Ani Difranco

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 — Ani Difranco

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong. — Ani Difranco

You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay. — Ani Difranco

Ani Difranco Quotes About Life

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar. — Ani Difranco

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society. — Ani Difranco

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally. — Ani Difranco

When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings. — Ani Difranco

I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn't perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it. — Ani Difranco

now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes — Ani Difranco

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion. — Ani Difranco

When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things. — Ani Difranco

For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight. — Ani Difranco

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now. — Ani Difranco

Ani Difranco Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Ani Difranco

What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to. — Ani Difranco

The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal. — Ani Difranco

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask — Ani Difranco

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. — Ani Difranco

[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. — Ani Difranco

Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way. — Ani Difranco

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

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. — Ani Difranco

All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a misogynist. There is no box marked "other." — 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

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. — Ani Difranco

We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate. — Ani Difranco

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked. — 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

If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps! — Ani Difranco

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations. — Ani Difranco

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past — Ani Difranco

And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range... — Ani Difranco

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all. — Ani Difranco

I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word marriage. Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights. — Ani Difranco

There's a paradox in every paradigm. — Ani Difranco

My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page. — Ani Difranco

To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do — Ani Difranco

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me. — Ani Difranco

I always feel I have to take a stand, And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere. — Ani Difranco

I can jump ship and swim-- that the ocean will hold me, that there's got to be more than this boat I'm in. — Ani Difranco

I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give. — Ani Difranco

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

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me. — Ani Difranco

Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said. — Ani Difranco

There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?" — Ani Difranco

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose. — Ani Difranco

Change the narrative, change the laws. — Ani Difranco

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

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. — Ani Difranco

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington. — Ani Difranco

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work. — Ani Difranco

I have earned my disillusionment. — Ani Difranco

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water. — Ani Difranco

I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real. — Ani Difranco

When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game. — Ani Difranco

Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things. — 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

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance. — Ani Difranco

I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think. — Ani Difranco

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create. — 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

I think if we can't use the word feminist, if it's some kind of taboo or dirty word, or means you're ugly, or you're angry, or you're not dateable [laughs], then you've just reduced the language by a whole concept. — Ani Difranco

I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen — Ani Difranco

I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. — Ani Difranco

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take. — Ani Difranco

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant. — Ani Difranco

Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You feel this way?! Me too!" Hanging out is consciousness-raising. — Ani Difranco

People talk about my image like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind. — Ani Difranco

I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be. — Ani Difranco

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try. — Ani Difranco

Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly. — Ani Difranco

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

You've got your whole life to do something, And that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call When you're willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right. — Ani Difranco

It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but I think without healing that and creating more of a balance between the sexes, we will never have balance globally. I feel like I am going deeper and deeper into this space where I came from that I barely understood. — Ani Difranco

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself? — Ani Difranco

My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial. — Ani Difranco

I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history. — Ani Difranco

Feel free to listen, feel free to stare. — Ani Difranco

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

We need a radically truthful way to acknowledge reproductive freedom. — Ani Difranco

If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair? — Ani Difranco

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me. — Ani Difranco

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. — Ani Difranco

Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules. — Ani Difranco

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored? — Ani Difranco

I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine. — Ani Difranco

Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall. — Ani Difranco

Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees? — Ani Difranco

We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water. — Ani Difranco

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with. — Ani Difranco

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options. — Ani Difranco

Life Lessons by Ani Difranco

1. Ani Difranco is a great example of how hard work and dedication can lead to success. She has been a self-made artist since the beginning of her career, and her independent approach has been a model for many aspiring musicians.
2. Ani Difranco's music is a testament to the power of self-expression and the importance of staying true to yourself and your values. Her lyrics are often politically charged and speak to the need for social justice.
3. Ani Difranco's career is a reminder that it is possible to make a living doing something you love, and that it is important to never give up on your dreams.