Anohni Quotes
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Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.
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Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.
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I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
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I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating singers I admired - Alison Moyet, Boy George, later on Nina Simone.
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As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
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Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.
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We're all just waiting for our sugar lumps. That's how life has been structured for us.
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We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.
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If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.
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Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.
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America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.
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Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.
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I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That seems to be, for me, where I've ended up, and I've been there pretty consistently since I was a teenager.
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The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough, you can make a fortune. Meanwhile, the working and middle classes have been hollowed out of the system.
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I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.
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The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the texts of a few frustrated, feather-wielding monks.
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Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.
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My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
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As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy.
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I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a part of presenting work has always been a source of angst for me.
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Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate from the rest of existence is a psychosis that spins us into virulence.
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I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got every week at the newsagent, or rearranging photos I cut out and pasted in scrapbooks.
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We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.
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Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.