511 Quotes by Ani DiFranco

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

i could step off the end of this pier but i gotshit to do and an appointment on tuesdayto shed uninvited blood and tissuei'll miss you, i sayto the river to the waterto the son or daughteri thought better ofi could fall in love with jerseyat sunsetbut i leave the view to the ratsand tiptoe back

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

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

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.