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
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 don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
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
...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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
“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 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
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
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
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
When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into… — 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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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
![“What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.” quote by Ani DiFranco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/894/ani-difranco-813_albums_what-i-like-about-being-independent-in-t_3081939.jpg)
