Ani DiFranco Quotes (61 Quotes)


    Art is why I get up in the morning my definition ends there. You know it doesn't seem fair, that I'm living for something I can't even define. And there you are right there, in the mean time.

    Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't 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, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

    I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

    People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

    Take me home. Take me home and leave me there. Think I'm gonna cry, don't know why. Think I'm gonna sing myself a lullaby. Feel free to listen. Feel free to stare.


    If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

    A few years ago, when this space was much more raw, I did a little playing here, and I thought this is going to be a beautiful place to perform.

    It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

    Maybe I'll live my whole life just getting by. Maybe I'll be discovered maybe I'll be colonized. You could try to train me like a pet, you could try to teach me to behave, I'll tell you that I haven't learned it yet, I ain't gonna sit, I ain't gonna

    you can doubt anythingif you think about it long enoughcuz what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that

    I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

    Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

    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.

    Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

    Youth is beauty, Money is beauty, hell beauty is beauty sometimes.

    I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

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

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

    Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that they should all have to pretend.

    What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation What kind of equation could I possibly employ

    Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

    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.

    Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

    I am watching your chest rise and falllike the tides of my life,and the rest of it alland your bones have been my bedframeand your flesh has been my pillowI am waiting for sleepto offer up the deepwith both hands

    Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

    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.

    i smoke and i drinkand every time i blink i have a tiny dreambut as bad as i am i'm proud of the factthat i'm worse than i seem

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

    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.

    Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. 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. 'Cuz some day you are gonna get hungry, and eat all of the words you just said.

    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.

    Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to 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.

    It just all slips away so slowly, you don't even notice that you've lost a lot. I've been like one of those zombies in Vegas pouring quaters into aIslot, and now I'm tired and I am broke and I feel stupid and I feel used and i'm at the end of my little rope and I am swinging back and forth about you.

    I've got more than one membership to more than one club and I owe my life to the people that I love.

    We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.


    When I look down, I miss all the good stuff when I look up, I just trip over things

    After a while, I sorta start to think there is no such thing as private, people don't like to say things that are too 'personal' but you know, if there's anything I've learned doing this for years, it's that nothing is just personal to me, I'm not that unique.

    Here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors who daily provide women with a choice, who stare down a threat the size of Oklahoma City just to listen to a young woman's voice.

    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.

    Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

    In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.


    Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

    I like you, but I know you don't know it. I like you so much, I talk to everyone but you. And I wonder what you would think of this little number. I wonder what you would say if you knew.

    Cuz take away our playstations and we are a third world nation under the thumb of some blue blood royal son who stole the oval office and that phony election.


    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.


    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.


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