Ani DiFranco

I am not an angry girlBut it seems like I've got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find hard to hearThey chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear

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I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

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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

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Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.

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and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people

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I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

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I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

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If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

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Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

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and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people

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I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

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I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

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Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

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I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

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I am not an angry girlBut it seems like I've got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find hard to hearThey chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear

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If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

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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

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Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime.

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I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

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Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

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Quotes by Ani DiFranco