Ani DiFranco

If more people were screamin', I could relax.

— Ani DiFranco

Music has as many roles as people make it.

— Ani DiFranco

I am 32 flavors and then some.

— Ani DiFranco

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

— Ani DiFranco

I am still praying for revolution.

— Ani DiFranco

“Everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.”

— Ani DiFranco

We've got ego's like hairdos.

— Ani DiFranco

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

— Ani DiFranco

I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.

— Ani DiFranco

For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.

— Ani DiFranco

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

— Ani DiFranco

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

— Ani DiFranco

I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.

— Ani DiFranco

We thought we left possession behind but truth is I was yours and you were mine

— Ani Difranco

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

— Ani DiFranco

Vulnerability is something that I negotiate every day.

— Ani DiFranco

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between…

— Ani DiFranco

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

— Ani DiFranco

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…

— Ani DiFranco

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

— Ani DiFranco

“I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I…

— Ani DiFranco

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You…

— Ani DiFranco

I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when…

— Ani DiFranco

I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped…

— Ani DiFranco

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and…

— Ani DiFranco

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and…

— Ani DiFranco

Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You…

— Ani DiFranco

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here…

— Ani DiFranco

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…

— Ani DiFranco

I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is…

— Ani DiFranco

How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's…

— Ani DiFranco

My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too…

— Ani DiFranco

[Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice…

— Ani DiFranco

“It makes me really sad that women have been ejected from the seat of their power in this society in terms of…

— Ani DiFranco

“when I was four years old they tried to test my I.Q. they showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a…

— Ani Difranco

I always try and stay one step ahead of people, not looking like I looked like last week, so I can be…

— Ani DiFranco

I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and…

— Ani DiFranco

I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further…

— Ani DiFranco

I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves…

— Ani DiFranco

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own…

— Ani DiFranco