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Ani DiFranco

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 23, 1970

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.

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I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

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Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

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These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

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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.

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I've never had a very closely connected family. 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 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.

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I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

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

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They taught me different was wrong.

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I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

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It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

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

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You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

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Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

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Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

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Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

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I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

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Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

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My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

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