I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right. Ani DiFranco More Quotes by Ani DiFranco More Quotes From Ani DiFranco I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And 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. Ani DiFranco dollars grace thinking God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash Ani DiFranco phoenix eye past In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all. Ani DiFranco marginalized community people Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway! Ani DiFranco down-and media sometimes My music doesn't really sound like punk music, it's acoustic. And it doesn't really sound like folk music 'cause I'm thrashing too hard and emoting a little too much for the sort of introspective, respectful, sort-of folk genre thing. I'm really into punk and folk as music that comes out of communities and is very genuine and very immediate and not commercial. Ani DiFranco community sound littles I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl. Ani DiFranco pretty-girl girl want My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations. Ani DiFranco self mother talking You rhapsodize about beauty, Ani DiFranco eye love-is mean If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps! Ani DiFranco community running thinking All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question. Ani DiFranco freedom-of-the-press suggestions people Love isn't over when the sheets are stained. Ani DiFranco sheets love-is love I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music. Ani DiFranco folk-music feminism folks Smile pretty and watch your back Ani DiFranco watches I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves. Ani DiFranco together inspire believe What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to. Ani DiFranco independent media writing Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you. Ani DiFranco too-much love-you relationship Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have. Ani DiFranco headache privilege knows 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. Ani DiFranco reading worry people When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game. Ani DiFranco cutting girl hair You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today. Ani DiFranco want today relationship
