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Ani DiFranco

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 23, 1970

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

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I'm not one of those people who has an act.

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We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

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I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

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My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

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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.

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Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

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It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.

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My songs are just little letters to me.

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Music has as many roles as people make it.

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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.

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

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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.

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For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.

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I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records.

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