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Ani DiFranco
Ani DiFranco
American Musician
Born: Sep 23, 1970
Life Me Music Own People You
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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. Ani DiFranco
Myself Face Mirror Rich Bathroom Able Rather Than Famous
Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.' Ani DiFranco
You Other Marked Box Feminist Either
I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement. Ani DiFranco
Needs You Woman Long Everytime Something Know Make Prove Improvement Move Movement
There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do. Ani DiFranco
Say Rather Up Just Much Shut Shut Up
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. Ani DiFranco
History Looking Own Nothing Strangers Faces Mystery Never Exciting Like Friends Ends Your
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. Ani DiFranco
You Tool Weapon Any Hold Right
It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way. Ani DiFranco
Great You Mistakes Own Way Boss Along Know Also Make Empowering Being Them Then Your Humbling
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ani DiFranco
Love Time You Love Is Wrong Time Window Piano Wrong Dropped Wrong Place Were Story Place Fourth
Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't. Ani DiFranco
Me Mistake Seriously Big Taking Big Mistake Certainly
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 it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. Ani DiFranco
Life Music Myself Me Anger Chill Everyday Life Own Everyday Way Bit Out About My Own Having More Had True Like Learn Always How Been Trying Politically Chill Out Place Little Little Bit Mechanism Express Helps Things
They taught me different was wrong. Ani DiFranco
Me Wrong Taught Different
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, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. Ani DiFranco
Work Music Age Writing Girl Gender Group Think Teenage Teenage Girls Guess Press Kind Something Tends Part Terms Sort Because Cultural Lot Chick Get Being Being A Girl Anything Dynamic Basically
I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves. Ani DiFranco
Music Together Inspire Power Become Believe Ourselves Intense Us Connect
If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less. Ani DiFranco
Me You Surrender Cause Style Nothing Down Go Hear Left Confess Gonna Worked Less
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 to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' Ani DiFranco
Music Relationship You Circumstance Folk Folk Music More Through Performance Between Performer Like Equals Audience Rock Rock Star Came Up Very Fan Interested Much Pop Star Stardom Compelling
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it. Ani DiFranco
Music Art People Live Painting Dancing About Something Powerful Attracted Lot Art Form Art Forms Close Different Form Hold Forms Why
Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. Ani DiFranco
Art Morning You Living Think Define Definition Something Fair Know Up Get Ends Even Why
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it. Ani DiFranco
You Reality Logical Ideological Cultural Order Anything Keep Reinvent
Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real. Ani DiFranco
Someone Feel Because Got How Real Just Just Because Interested Here
It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me. Ani DiFranco
Me People Seems Idea Am Different Then Should Different People
I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long. Ani DiFranco
Life Time You Long Long Time Gone Something Got Coming Been Very Your Whole
I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. Ani DiFranco
Work Women Experience Hate People Writing World Men Seen Own Broader Recognize About Having More Tends Generally Put Import Context Opposed Any Being Which Large Universal
All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general. Ani DiFranco
Youth Culture Think Back Our Corporate Furious Sold Our Lives Parcel Rate General Part Part And Parcel Days Packaged Us Youth Culture Lives
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial. Ani DiFranco
Music Hate Seriously All Things Pop Pop Music Things
I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that sort of centered feeling that I have now. You know, thanks to, not just my kid, but her father before her. You know, I have a kind of a grounding through them that I really relish, and I think is also good for my work, you know. Ani DiFranco
Work Time Good You Father Long Long Time Feeling Before Thanks Think Lately Kid Kind About Relish More Through Performing Know Also Sort Been Than Just Centered Them Really Grounding Now Her Enjoying
Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing. Ani DiFranco
Myself Me You Denial Made Half Year Live Otherwise Address Though Would Parent Only Instance Know Comfortable Parts Self-Loathing Been Lot Taught Being Things
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