Ani DiFranco Quotes ... Page 1

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"I am listening to the low moan of the dial tone again, and I am getting nowhere with you ... and I can't let it go, and I can't get through..." - ani difranco, 'both hands'

"in each other's shadows we grew less and less tall, and eventually our theories couldn't explain it all." - ani difranco, 'both hands'

"and I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and eventually the landlord will come and paint over it all." - ani difranco, 'both hands'

"in this city, self-preservation is a full time occupation. I'm determined to survive on this shore. you know I don't avert my eyes anymore." - ani difranco, 'talk to me now'

"in a man's world, I am a woman by birth." - ani difranco, 'talk to me now'

"I played the powerless in too many dark scenes, and I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between." - ani difranco, 'talk to me now'

"don't you understand? in the day to day and the face to face, I have to act just as strong as I can just to preserve a place where I can be who I am." - ani difranco, 'talk to me now'

"steel toed they walk, and I'm wondering why this fear of men ... maybe it's because I'm hungry, and like a baby I'm dependent on them to feed me." - ani difranco, 'the slant'

"I am a work in progress; dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding, offering me intricte patterns of questions, rhythms that never come clean, and strengths that you still haven't seen." - ani difranco, 'the slant'

"I wonder what you look like, under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like, when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have, when we're not pretending." - ani difranco, 'work your way out'

"it's never-ending, haven't you heard? I don't need to tell you what this is about; you just start on the inside and work your way out." - ani difranco, 'work your way out'

"we are all polylingual, but some of us pretend there's virtue in relying on not trying to understand." - ani difranco, 'work your way out'

"there are some things that you can't know, unless you've been there. but oh how far we could go, if we started to share." - ani difranco, 'work your way out'

"freedom and democracy; that's the word from washington every day. the america's asleep with warm milk and cliches." - ani difranco, 'dog coffee'

"I said why don't you go home? just leave me alone. I'm just another woman lost." - ani difranco, 'lost woman song'

"you are like fish in the water, who don't know that they are wet. as far as I can tell -- the world isn't perfect yet." - ani difranco, 'lost woman song'

"I wish he'd never come here with me, in fact, I wish he'd never come near me." - ani difranco, 'lost woman song'

"some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times." - ani difranco, 'lost woman song'

"sixteen, seventeen years old -- you can smell them getting pregnant. you can hear their rock and roll -- that's america." - ani difranco, 'pale purple'

"well time is something nobody can buy, and nobody can sell you, so don't let anybody tell you they have the advantage." - ani difranco, 'pale purple'

"and there were some things that I did not tell him; there were certain things he did not need to know. and there were some days when I did not love him; he didn't understand me. and I don't know why I didn't go." - ani difranco, 'rush hour'

"I expected he would be there in the morning; I awoke to the alarm. he was still in arm's reach, but his body was just a disguise; his mind had wandered off long ago." - ani difranco, 'rush hour'

"make me laugh, make me cry, enrage me -- but just don't try to disengage me." - ani difranco, 'rush hour'

"and I wasn't joking when I said... Good Bye." - ani difranco, 'fire door'

"you know, taken out of context I must seem so strange." - ani difranco, 'fire door'

"I'm singing now because my tear ducts are too tired and my brain is disconnected but my heart is wired." - ani difranco, 'fire door'

"I make such a good statistic, someone should study me now. somebody's got to be interested in how I feel just 'cause I'm here -- and I'm real." - ani difranco, 'fire door'

"oh, how I miss substituting the conclusion to confrontation with a kiss. and oh, how I miss walking up to the edge and jumping in, like I could feel the future on your skin." - ani difranco, 'fire door'

"I would have returned your greeting, if it weren't for the way you were looking at me." - ani difranco, 'the story' "and thoughts of no other man but you, could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind." - ani difranco, 'every angle'

"I'm imagining the way you say my name. I don't know when I'm going to hear it again." - ani difranco, 'every angle'

"my friends can't tell my laughter from my cries. someone tell this photograph of you to let go of my eyes." - ani difranco, 'every angle'

"my thighs have been involved in many accidents and now I can't get insured. and I don't need to be lured by you." - ani difranco, 'out of habit'

"my cunt is built like a wound that won't heal and now you don't have to ask, because you know how I feel." - ani difranco, 'out of habit'

"and it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. there you are right there, in the meantime." - ani difranco, 'out of habit'

"I am letting the telephone ring cause I don't want to know why. I don't want to hear you explain, I don't want to hear you cry." - ani difranco, 'letting the telephone ring'

"I have written so much about you ... so much I thought I knew; words like water used to flow... now what could I possibly have to say?" - ani difranco, 'letting the telephone ring'

"and all the things that you've given to me, I see now were simply reparations. they were gifts of your guilt." - ani difranco, 'letting the telephone ring'

"I know this shouldn't be important, compared to you and I, but I can still hear my questions and I can still hear you, I can still hear you lie." - ani difranco, 'letting the telephone ring'

"you always said that I was hiding, that I was hiding from you but you are capable of things I could not do." - ani difranco, 'letting the telephone ring'

"I remember how you pretended ... how you pretended to touch me. I remember how I couldn't bring myself to believe ... I remember wondering, what was wrong? what was wrong? how could I be so naive?" - ani difranco, 'letting the telephone ring'

"you are subtle as a window pane standing in my view. but I will wait for it to rain so that I can see you." - ani difranco, 'anticipate'

"and you think that I don't understand, but I do." - ani difranco, 'anticipate'

"we don't say everything that we could, so that we can say later, 'oh, you misunderstood.'" - ani difranco, 'anticipate'

"if there's anything I've learned all these years on my own ... it's how to find my own way there, and how to find my own way back home." - ani difranco, 'anticipate'

"I said today I am leaving, in every sense of the word, but I'm in love with your memory already; everything I've seen and heard." - ani difranco, 'rockabye'

"I said please try not to love me. close your eyes, I'm turning on the light. you know I have no vacancy and it's awfully cold outside tonight." - ani difranco, 'she says'

"I'm gonna turn and walk away, you can wait till I am far along -- then run and come and catch my arm and say you'd die if I were gone." - ani difranco, 'make me stay'

"I can't always wait for your circumstance to improve. love is loose, it shifts each time you move." - ani difranco, 'make me stay'

"step back into the light so I can see your silhouette -- I'm not done looking yet." - ani difranco, 'make me stay'

"yes I'm going to turn and walk away ... you can watch me go or you can make me stay." - ani difranco, 'make me stay'