Ani DiFranco Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
-
The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
-
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
-
I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?
-
If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
-
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
-
Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
-
There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
-
And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
-
I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.
-
I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do!
-
I was a production assistant. I saw what people who are full of themselves are like - another reason not to lose your humility! I have a mouth on me so I wasn't the best P.A.
-
I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.
-
I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
-
If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
-
I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.
-
You neglect and belittle the desert. The desert is not remote in southern tropics The desert is not only around the corner, The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you, The desert is in the heart of your brother.
-
Idiots. They were losing everything because of their short-sightedness. Maybe they deserved to lose it.
-
If there is a God and you believe in him, you know the best is yet to come.
-
Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.
-
I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.
-
I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.
-
I don't in any way underestimate the difficulties, because it's only gotten harder. But I do think you just have to go into politics with the attitude that you're going to speak clearly and authentically about what you see the country needs...and seek out whatever possible partners you can, even in the other party. I've looked at successful presidents going back. Some of our most successful governed through periods when their party was in charge, and when the other party was in charge. There's no magic formula.
-
I still define myself by the places that I've been.
