Ani DiFranco Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is surely the moment when a lot of women finally understand the depth of their power. You think it can’t possibly be done, you think you can’t possibly take the pain, and then you do-—and afterward you look at yourself in a whole new way. If you can do that, you can do anything.

  Ani DiFranco

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

• These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work, I can see those songs I bailed on could have been better, that had those great two verses and then I kind of coasted from there. These days, if a song is giving me trouble, I put it aside and pick it up later, and keep doing that, for a year if I have to, until it takes shape.

  Ani DiFranco

  Song, Writing, Years

• I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Philosophy, Blood

  Song: Pixie Be Nice, Album: Little Plastic Castle

• and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and 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 she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

  Ani DiFranco

  Integrity, Moving, Home

• 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

  Ani DiFranco

  Philosophy, Love You, Mean

  Song: Looking For The Holes, Album: Not So Soft

• When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, March On Washington, Giving

• The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.

  Ani DiFranco

  Moral Fiber, Giving, Scary

  Source: www.elle.com

• People who are just starting out are always sort of coming to me for advice as the example of "independent girl," and lots of people ask, well, how did you get the booking agent or the national distribution or the tours? And I look at them like, "Good lord! Relax!" I mean, how I did it was to not care about it and to not even think about it for years and years. All I thought about was getting the next little gig in the little bar, and I get this sense that people want me to give them the secret formula or the magic trick to make it all happen.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Mean, Independent

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• You've got your whole life to do something, And that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call When you're willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right.

  Ani DiFranco

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  Song: Willing to Fight, Album: Puddle Dive

• I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be.

  Ani DiFranco

  Mother, Baby, Nice

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