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There's a paradox in every paradigm.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.
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I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.
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Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
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I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
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Music has as many roles as people make it.
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How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?
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We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.
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There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.
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How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, why don't you decide fore yourself what you can do?
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Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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My songs are just little letters to me.
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But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.
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Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.
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I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong they taught me different was wrong.
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I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.
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People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.
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You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.
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