a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned Ani DiFranco More Quotes by Ani DiFranco More Quotes From Ani DiFranco 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. Ani DiFranco father kids thinking 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. Ani DiFranco support parent mom I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. Ani DiFranco edges music language fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows Ani DiFranco fate blow wind We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands Ani DiFranco character hands years Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN! Ani DiFranco having-fun fun When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair. Ani DiFranco chairs middle comfortable I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes. Ani DiFranco snakes names games spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know Ani DiFranco eye mind spring 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. Ani DiFranco bending guitar beautiful My songs are just little letters to me. Ani DiFranco letters littles song I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial. Ani DiFranco pop-music pops hate I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive. Ani DiFranco care alive depression Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't. Ani DiFranco big-mistake bigs mistake Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. Ani DiFranco morning art thinking I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement. Ani DiFranco women long moving 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. Ani DiFranco surrender style causes It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me. Ani DiFranco different people ideas Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right. Ani DiFranco weapons tools ifs 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 whole-life gone long
