Ani DiFranco Quotes - Page 10

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Fighting, Stronger, Fight The Good Fight

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• I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

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  New York, Mean, Animal

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

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  Government, Ecosystems, People

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Nice, Littles

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

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  Mom, Support, Parent

  "Ani DiFranco, antes y ahora". Entrevista con Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. 13 de diciembre de 2010.

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• I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

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  Beautiful, Guitar, Classic

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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-loathing.

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  Self, Years, Parent

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• Music has as many roles as people make it.

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  People, Roles

  "Talking With Ani DiFranco". Interview with Alexander Billet, www.counterpunch.org. January 24, 2012.

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• I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know.

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  Padre, Niños, Pensar

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

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  Song, Hero, Writing

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Cutting, Hair

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• It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.

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  Mistake, Empowering, Boss

  "Ani DiFranco Thrives With 20th Album". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 29, 2008.

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• Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

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  War, Media, People

  "'I'm considering a revolution'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2007.

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• Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

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  Honesty, Taken, Strange

  Song: Fire Door

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• I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

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  Song, Lying, Artist

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. March 13, 2002.

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• 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?

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  Kids, Thinking, Political

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• I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

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  Mirrors, Feel Good, Looking In The Mirror

  "'I'm considering a revolution'". Interview with Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2007.

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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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  Women, Moving, Long

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• It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

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  Reading, People, Worry

  "Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• No me importa si me comen vivo, tengo mejores cosas que hacer que sobrevivir.

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  Depression, Alive, Care

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• I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

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  Long, Gone, Whole Life

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• Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

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  Bread, Bread And Butter, Shows

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• [Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough.

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  Summer, Nice, Thinking

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• 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

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  Spring, Eye, Mind

  Song: Half-Assed, Album: Reprieve, 2006

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

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  Music, Language, Edges

  Song: Make Me Stay, Album: Not So Soft

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