The best Quotes by Ani DiFranco

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Why can't they understand the way we feel?
They just don't trust, what they can't explain
I know we're different, but deep inside us
We're not that different at all

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

You my say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope some day you'll join us,
and the world will live as one.

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Together, the weak are powerful.

You can be strong by yourself, but together you'll be invincible.

On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

See how community is only a good thing when you're a part of it.

Where there is unity there is always victory.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.

Music is reflection of self

"Ah, music"' he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Do or do not. There is no try.

If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.

Take your time to think, but when it is time to act, stop thinking and act!

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

He who thinks too much, will not act.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying.

If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.

A bl*wjob isn't with your mouth, it's with your heart. Now get on your knees and put that heart to work.

Statistically speaking, the most bacteria-ridden place on the planet is the mouth of an American woman.

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Mr. Fredricksen: "Hey, let's play a game. It's called: See Who Can Be Quiet the Longest."
Russell: "Cool, my mom loves that game."

You wouldn't know love if it shat in your mouth!

There are so many great things to do with the human mouth, why waste it on talking?

Jacob: "You see that, Cal? As soon as you opened your mouth, Tiffany starting doubting whether she wanted to sleep with you anymore."
Cal: "That's probably the meanest thing anyone's every said to me."

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.