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Music Quotes by Ani DiFranco
- ...when you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless...
- I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..
- Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through…
- I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music…
- I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
- I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
- Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
- I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything,…
- I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
- and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say…
- Music has as many roles as people make it.
- I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.
- I smoke and I drink and every time I blink I have a tiny dream but as bad as I am I'm proud of the…
More Music Quotes
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- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong