Quotes by Ani DiFranco

About Ani DiFranco:

Ani DiFranco is an American singer, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, poet and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums and is widely considered a feminist icon. DiFranco has received positive feedback from critics for much of her career.
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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the roc...

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I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

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

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

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Music has as many roles as people make it.

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

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If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

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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.

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I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

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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.

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

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Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

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

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Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

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

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Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

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Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loa...

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These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibr...

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I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAni DiFranco
  • Descriptionmusician and activist
  • BornSeptember 23, 1970
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Street Artist; Composer