Ani DiFranco Quotes

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• Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
• One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
• There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV.…
• I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk…
• Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.
• These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And then when I…
• These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs…
• My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to…
• I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and even the meaning…
• I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to…
• People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
• If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.
• What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is…
• Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said'…
• It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and…
• I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.
• They taught me different was wrong.
• Smile pretty and watch your back
• I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is surely the moment…
• I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,

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