Quotes By Person: Ani DiFranco
“and I'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said.”
-32 Flavors, Ani DiFranco
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“Youth is beauty
Money is beauty
Hell, beauty is beauty sometimes.”
-Cradle and All, Ani DiFranco
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“Beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel
There's a fire that's just waiting for fuel.”
-Fuel, Ani DiFranco
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“Regretfully, I guess I've only got three simple things to say:
Why me? Why this now? Why this way?
With overtones ringing and undertows pulling away
Under a sky that is grey on sand that is grey, by an ocean that's grey.”
-Grey, Ani DiFranco
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“The sky is grey, the sand is grey, and the ocean is grey
And I feel right at home in this stunning monochrome, alone in my way.”
-Grey, Ani DiFranco
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“Everything I do is judged, and they mostly get it wrong, but oh well
'Cause the bathroom mirror has not budged and the woman who lives there can
tell
The truth from the stuff that they say, and she looks me in the eye
And says 'Would you prefer the easy way? No? Well, okay then, don't cry.'”
-Joyful Girl, Ani DiFranco
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“i am not an angry girl
but it seems like
i've got everyone fooled
every time i say something
they find hard to hear
they chalk it up to my anger
never to their own fear
imagine you're a girl
just trying to finally come clean
knowing full well they'd prefer
you were dirty
and smiling.”
-not a pretty girl, Ani DiFranco
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“some people wear their smile
like a disguise
those people who smile a lot
watch the eyes
i know it 'cause i'm like that a lot
you think everything's okay
and it is
'til it's not.”
-outta me, onto you, Ani DiFranco
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“this is who I am
what I do
and what I say
if you like it, let it be
if you don't, please do the same.”
-Pick Yer Nose, Ani DiFranco
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“little flashing zero
on my answering machine
rats scratching at my brain
brain shuffling its feet
yes i have my father's heart
it may or may not keep on trying
can't really tell you what it is
keeps me this side of that dark line.”
-Recoil, Ani DiFranco
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“And you're trying hard to figure out
Just exactly how you feel
Before you end up parked and sobbing
Forehead on the steering wheel.”
-So What, Ani DiFranco
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“I am out here studying stones, trying to learn to be less alive
Using all of my will to keep very still, still even on the inside.”
-Studying Stones, Ani DiFranco
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“'Cause I dont care if they eat me alive
I've got better things to do than survive.”
-Swan Dive, Ani DiFranco
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“'Cos a little bird told me
that jumping is easy
that falling is fun
right up till you hit the sidewalk
shivering and stunned.”
-Swan Dive, Ani DiFranco
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“and you can dangle your carrot,
but i ain't gonna reach for it,
'cause i need both my hands
to play my guitar.
and life is a sleazy stranger
who looks vaguely familiar,
flirting with a bimbo named disaster
at the end of the bar.”
-The Million You Never Made, Ani DiFranco
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“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 am trying to see through the glare
Yeah I'm struggling just to see what is there.”
-Virtue, Ani DiFranco
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“Do you ever have that dream when you open your mouth and you try to scream
but you cant make a sound?
Thats everyday starting now - don't tell me it's gonna be alright, you cant
sell me on your optimism tonight.”
-Wish I May, Ani DiFranco
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“I don't think I am strong enough to do this much longer - God I wish I was
stronger
This song can never be long enough to express every longing - God I wish it
was longer.”
-Wish I May, Ani DiFranco
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“I gotta suck it up and savour the taste of my own behaviour
I am spinning with longing faster then a roulette wheel
This is not who I meant to be, this is not how I meant to feel.”
-Wish I May, Ani DiFranco
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“I'm losing my love of adventure, I'm losing all respect for me and myself
tonight
I wonder what happens if I get to the end of this tunnel and there isn't a
light
I've worn down the treads on all of my tires, i've worn through the elbows
and the knees of my clothing
And I'm staring down the gravel driveway of desire trying not to wake up my
sleeping self loathing.”
-Wish I May, Ani DiFranco
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