Quotes by Ani DiFranco

“If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up”

“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.”

“I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.”

“We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window ma...”

“I am not an angry girlBut it seems like Ive got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find hard to hearThey chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear”

“I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.”

“and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesan...”

“I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.”

“Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.”

“You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good natured way.In fact, I'm laughing less in general,But I learned a lot at my own funeral.And I knew y...”

“I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head”

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.”

“And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.”

“I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.”

“I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.”

“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.”

“You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.”

“Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.”

“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 folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance t...”

“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 for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express...”