Ani Difranco
Ani Difranco
Ani DiFrancois an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter and businesswoman. She has released more than 20 albums and is widely considered a feminist icon. DiFranco has received positive feedback from critics for much of her career...
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth23 September 1970
CityBuffalo, NY
mean connections punk
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
mom baby creative
As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.
hate pops pop-music
I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
elephants rooms planets
Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.
beautiful guitar bending
These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.
mother self talking
My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.
fate blow wind
fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows
girl fashion thinking
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
women moving long
I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
emotional kind sensitive
I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.
philosophy love-you mean
we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the very air in disguise you can talk a great philosophy but if you can't be kind to people every day it doesn't mean that much to me it's the little things you do the little things you say it's the love you give along the way
reality order logical
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
character hands years
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
fun having-fun
Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!