I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I smoke and I drink and every time I blink I have a tiny dream but as bad as I am I'm… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Music has as many roles as people make it. I traveled to Burma once years ago to witness the people's struggle for… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
...when you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room Now… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial, so I'd be hard pressed to feel embarrassed by anything I listen to.… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
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… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
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… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
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. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
God help you if you are an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image