Top 200 Ani DiFranco Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that’s the way it is, that’s just the way it goes, why don’t you decide fore yourself what you can do?”

— Ani DiFranco

152. “At night when you’re asleep, self-hatred’s going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who’s bed you sleep in.”

— Ani DiFranco

153. “Someone’s got to be interested in how I feel, just because I’m here and I’m real.”

— Ani DiFranco

154. “I think I’m a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.”

— Ani DiFranco

155. “I’m searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn’t do it!”

— Ani DiFranco

156. “If you think you know what I’m doing wrong well you’re gonna have to get in line...”

— Ani DiFranco

157. “Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here’s two beers to remember why and three more to forget.”

— Ani DiFranco

158. “I have earned my disillusionment.”

— Ani DiFranco

159. “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

160. “And if there’s anything I do it’s change and grow. I’m just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.”

— Ani DiFranco

161. “It’s just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it’s so hard that I actually haven’t left yet.”

— Ani DiFranco

162. “One breath at a time is an acceptable plan, she tells herself.”

— Ani DiFranco

163. “They taught me different was wrong.”

— Ani DiFranco

164. “I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember – cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back.”

— Ani DiFranco

165. “When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you’re trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can’t go march on Washington.”

— Ani DiFranco

166. “Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.”

— Ani DiFranco

167. “I still define myself by the places that I’ve been.”

— Ani DiFranco

168. “One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.”

— Ani DiFranco

169. “I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It’s nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you’re gonna be.”

— Ani DiFranco

170. “I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word marriage. Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.”

— Ani DiFranco

171. “A good brain ain’t diddley, if you don’t have the facts.”

— Ani DiFranco

172. “We’re led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.”

— Ani DiFranco

173. “The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.”

— Ani DiFranco

174. “I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that’s exactly what happens.”

— Ani DiFranco

175. “Love isn’t over when the sheets are stained.”

— Ani DiFranco

176. “Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.”

— Ani DiFranco

177. “My life may not be something special But it’s never been lived before.”

— Ani DiFranco

178. “My distraction’s my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground’s out of focus but you know I kinda hope it’s just a phase Just a phase.”

— Ani DiFranco

179. “First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.”

— Ani DiFranco

180. “I’ve been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!”

— Ani DiFranco

181. “My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.”

— Ani DiFranco

182. “Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I’ve forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn’t it just like you to bring me to my knees?”

— Ani DiFranco

183. “How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?”

— Ani DiFranco

184. “I mean, I think it’s hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn’t narrow your options.”

— Ani DiFranco

185. “People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.”

— Ani DiFranco

186. “Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn’t.”

— Ani DiFranco

187. “Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.”

— Ani DiFranco

188. “I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it’s a waste of time. I live in the now.”

— Ani DiFranco

189. “There’s this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.”

— Ani DiFranco

190. “They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.”

— Ani DiFranco

191. “Why do our kids have to show us what gun control is all about?”

— Ani DiFranco

192. “So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.”

— Ani DiFranco

193. “Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.”

— Ani DiFranco

194. “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

195. “We’ve got ego’s like hairdos.”

— Ani DiFranco

196. “I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that’s all laid out for me. I’ll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone’s idea. It could have just as well been mine.”

— Ani DiFranco

197. “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.”

— Ani DiFranco

198. “There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we’re all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.”

— Ani DiFranco

199. “I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they’re both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally.”

— Ani DiFranco

200. “If more people were screamin’, I could relax.”

— Ani DiFranco