Ani DiFranco Quotes - Page 3

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

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

I have earned my disillusionment.

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

I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.

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.

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

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.

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

I am still praying for revolution.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

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

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

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

Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.

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

When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.

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.

[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.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

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

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

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.