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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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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.
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There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.
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I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.
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I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.
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I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.
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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
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I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.
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Feel free to listen, feel free to stare.
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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
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I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.
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