Ani DiFranco Quotes ... Page 8

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"And you're wondering how far down you are on my call back list, but you don't realize, every time I find I'm by a phone the landscape shifts." - Ani Difranco 'Cloud Blood'

"You can call it magic, when a man pulls a rabbit out of a hat, but the reason I don't call you is 'cause I wonder if there isn't a better word than that. And you can call me crazy, but I think you're as lazy as white paint on the wall and I know you'll only speak to me in dial tones if I call." - Ani Difranco 'Cloud Blood'

"Driving, trying hard to resist sleeps first kiss. Every time I have time to think, I think of this." - Ani Difranco 'Cloud Blood'

"I know this song, with this one really killer line. I don't remember it exactly, but it slays me every time." - Ani Difranco 'I Know This Bar'

"I guess now we could just get drunk, yeah, that could be our excuse. You could slip from out of nowhere, I could be there to catch your fall. We could laugh at ourselves and the writing that's on the wall." - Ani Difranco 'Providence'

"It's a narrow margin, just room enough for regret, in the inch and a half between, 'hey, how ya been?' and, 'can I kiss you yet?' So we talk, like nervous neighbors over a tall fence. True love, but for the lack of providence." - Ani Difranco 'Providence'

"But I just got one more thing to tell you, 'cause words are vitamins and life is short." - Ani Difranco 'Providence'

"We're gonna have to fill out a full report and the first question will be 'what were you thinking?' and the next question will be, 'what did you say?' Then they're gonna check to see if the answers to one and two, matched up much along the way." - Ani Difranco 'Providence'

"In the interest of poetry and the cowboy movie, that's you and me. I'm back on the horse now and I am riding, I am striding so effortlessly. What I mean is, it's late, much too late for us and I'm fixing to go home with my conscious and a bitter sense of irony as my chaperone." - Ani Difranco 'Providence'

"I heard you had some trouble, down there again and I'm just calling to let you know that someone understands." - Ani Difranco 'Hello Birmingham'

"Half of learning how to play is learning what not to play, and she's learning the spaces she leaves, have their own things to say. Then she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy, that gives what it is and has nothing to prove.' - Ani Difranco 'Up Up Up Up Up Up'

"She crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home, and it's enough just to look around, to know she's not alone." - Ani Difranco 'Up Up Up Up Up Up'

"As we walked home we spoke slowly, we spoke slow, and we spoke lowly. Like it was taking more time than usual to choose the words to go." - Ani Difranco 'Everest'

"I just want you to understand that I know what all the fighting was for, and I just want you to understand, that I'm not angry anymore. I'm not angry anymore." - Ani Difranco 'Angry Anymore'

"But I just want to walk through my life unarmed, to accept and just get by." - Ani Difranco 'Angry Anymore'

"Night falls like people into love. We generate our own light to compensate for the lack of light from above. Every time we fight a cold wind blows our way." - Ani Difranco 'Angry Anymore'

"If the mattress was a table top and the bed sheet was a page, we'd be written out like a couple of question marks, my convex to your concave, and we'd be lying here at the end of a sentence and asks, 'are you ready now?' 'are you gonna glow in the dark?' 'are you gonna show me how?'" - Ani Difranco 'Angel Food'

"When you come to me, come to me with cake in your pocket. Come to me nicely with that soft kinda cake, that's mostly icing. Come to me ready and rude." - Ani Difranco 'Angel Food'

"We used to hold hands down those unfamiliar streets. You used to take me diving into the watery blue deep, but now you're trying to find every tiny treasure, every shiny penny of pleasure, satisfy every selfish purpose before you swim back up to the surface." - Ani Difranco 'Come Away From It'

"You think that you just don't like it anymore, but I'll tell you what I don't like. I don't like that I had to put the training wheels back onto your bike and I don't like the extravagance or the way you taste when I kiss you. I don't like being left alone. Baby, don't you think I miss you?" - Ani Difranco 'Come Away From It'

"And I know that sometimes all I can see, is how I feel, like the whole world is on the other side of a dirty windshield and I'm tryin to see through the glare. Yes, I'm struggling just to see what's there." - Ani Difranco 'Virtue'

"The one person who really knows me best says I'm like a cat. Yeah, the kind of cat that you just can't pick up and throw into your lap. No, the kind that doesn't mind being held, only when it's her idea. Yeah, the kind that feels what she decides to feel, when she is good and ready to feel it." - Ani Difranco 'Virtue'

"I have gotten out of everything I've gotten into so far. I eat when I am hungry and I travel alone, and just outside the glow of the house is where I feel most at home." - Ani Difranco 'Virtue'

"You crawled into my bed like some sort of giant insect and I found myself spellbound. That night at the sight of you there, beautiful and grotesque and all the rest of that bug stuff. Bluffing your way into my mouth, behind my teeth, reaching for my scars." - Ani Difranco 'Pulse'

"And I realized that night that the hall light, which seemed so bright when you turned it on, is nothing compared to the dawn, which is nothing compared to the light which seeps from me while you're sleeping beautiful and grotesque resting cacooned in my room." - Ani Difranco 'Pulse'

"Sitting in my glass house, while your ghost is sleeping down the hall, watching the little birds fly kamikaze missions into the walls. Think I'm gonna stay in today sit on my couch and watch them fall." - Ani Difranco 'Glass House'

"Life just keeps getting harder, keeps getting harder to hide. Darker it is around me, easier it is to see inside and outside the glass the whole world is magnified and it's barely an inch from here to the other side." - Ani Difranco 'Glass House'

"Guess that push has come to this, so I guess this must be shove, but before you throw those stones at me, tell me what's your house made of and before you'll know what I'm doing wrong, you're going to have to get in line for the purposes of this song. Lets just say I'm doing fine. Sure, I'm doing fine." - Ani Difranco 'Glass House'

"Trapped in my glass house, crowd has been gathering since dawn. Make a pot of coffee, while catastrophe awaits me out on the lawn. Think I'm going to stay in today, pretend like I don't know what's going on." - Ani Difranco 'Glass House'

"So many sheep I quit counting. Sleepless and embarrassed about the way that I feel. Trying to make mole hills out of mountains, building base camp at the bottom of a really big deal and did I tell you how I stopped eating, when you stopped calling me? And I was cramped up shitting rivers for weeks and pretending that I was finally free." - Ani Difranco 'Independence Day'

"Don't leave me here now that you're back. You'd better stay this time, 'cause you say the coast is clear, but you say that all the time." - Ani Difranco 'Independence Day'

"Cradling the softest, warmest part of you in my hand, feels like a little baby bird fallen from the nest. I think that your body is something I understand. I think that I'm happy, I think that I'm blessed." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'

"I've got a lack of inhibition, I've got a loss of perspective, I've had a little bit to drink and it's making me think that I can jump ship and swim, that the ocean will hold me, that there's got to be more than this boat I'm in." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'

"'Cause they can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant, if i succeed. Gravity is nothing to me, moving at the speed of sound. I'm just going to get my feet wet until I drown." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'

"And I teeter between tired and really, really tired. I'm wiped and I'm wired, but I guess it's just as well because I built my own empire." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'

"And I've got a lack of information, but I got a little revelation and I'm climbing up on the railing, trying not to look down, I'm going to do my best swan dive in the shark infested waters." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'

"'Cause I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do than survive. I've got a memory of your warm skin in my hand and I've got a vision of blue sky and dry land." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'

"I'm cradling the hardest, heaviest part of me in my hand. The ship is pitching and heaving, my limbs are bobbing and weaving, and I think this is what I understand. I just need a little vaccination for my far-away vacation. I'm going to go ahead boldly because a little bird told me, that jumping is easy, that falling is fun, up until you hit the sidewalk, shivering, stunned." - Ani Difranco 'Swan Dive'

"I'm a pixie, I'm a paperdoll, I'm a cartoon, I'm a chipper cheerful free for all and I light up a room. I'm the color me, happy girl. Miss live and let live and when they're out for blood, I always give." - Ani Difranco 'Pixie'

"The man behind the counter looks like he's got a half a dozen places he'd rather be and furthermore it looks like he's prepared, to take it all out on me. Buddy, I don't really care what your problem is, just don't make it mine." - Ani Difranco 'Pixie'

"Come on kids, let's all hold hands and pretend we're having a good time." -Ani Difranco 'Pixie'

"Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep. Well, nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape and there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice." - Ani Difranco 'Pixie'

"Yeah, I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof, like life is just a boring chore and I am living proof. I could join forces with an army of ornery hipsters, but then I guess I'd be out of a job. So I guess that's out of the picture." - Ani Difranco 'Pixie'

"You've always got those dark sunglasses covering up your face, but if you promise to take them off, I promise I won't squander your gaze. I will be picturesque, I will be nice." - Ani Difranco 'Loom'

"When I was giggling and dizzy, flirting like a 12 year old girl, the carnival of you and me was coming to town. Watch how we spin and stop and then fall down. Now we just say hello and head for firmer ground." - Ani Difranco 'Loom'

"I always looked into your glasses, like a cat looks into a fish tank, but all I could ever see was the specter of me reflected. I'm on a monument of friendship that we never had erected. I wanted to take up lots of room. I wanted to loom." - Ani Difranco 'Loom'

"This is only a possibility in a world of possibilities. There are obviously many possibilities ranging from small to large. Before long there will be short, before short there was nothing. When there was nothing, there was always the possibility of something becoming what it is." - Ani Difranco 'Deep Dish'

"Don't even bother trying to say something clever. Clever is as clever does, no matter what it says. I'm looking for a sign, says you're for real this time, but I don't trust what's in your head." - Ani Difranco 'Deep Dish'

"I'll show you how it's gonna be, 'cause I can't wait for the bad to begin." - Ani Difranco 'Deep Dish'

"We met in a dream, we were both 19. I remember where we were standing. I remember how it felt." - Ani Difranco 'Two Little Girls'