Ani DiFranco Quotes - Page 4

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

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

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.

We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

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

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

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.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

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

It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

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

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.

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.

Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

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

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.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

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.