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Ok so you might not expect me for a Ani fan at first glance.
Yes some of her lyrics are crude, but they come from where she is at.
She has become an icon in many ways to a young generation of woman
artists.
Her music is outstanding, her lyrics profound as well as sometimes
perverse.
I really think she deserves credit as a musician as a song writer and
for being a real person.
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"Honestly, what is said about me in the media is not my
greatest concern. That's part of the job; people
"I was in New York at a traumatic photo shoot. They kind
of go from mildly traumatic to absolutely
"My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's
very open-ended: every woman has the right to
"I guess I was never really the intellectual type--that's why I play music and don't stand in front of a blackboard with a cue-stick--it's a form I can relate to." From: Off Our Backs, November, 1994 "I get up there and I'm making jokes and I'm playing my songs.
Oftentimes when things are going really
"There's a certain window of time in the middle of the
night out in Middle America where there's no bar
"I find it hard to accept rebel music in a corporate setting.
Because you know all those people have to
"I think politics is a way of looking at the world and
processing your experience. As a woman, I don't
"Folk is music rooted into a community of people. Of course,
I am different from the old folk singers. I
"It's really great to provide encouragement and inspiration.
But it can't end there. I can't let people
"I always was an activist, and whenever I get bogged down,
I look at all those progressive lawyers I know who work in death-penalty
resource centers, or my friends who work at rape crisis centers or hospitals
"There's so much more you can do with an acoustic than
stand there and strum it, and since I started
"I think women are taught to be nurturing and understanding.
But within every sweet, smiling woman,
"I don't fall in love that often, and when I do, I don't
have an agenda. I understand the need for gays,
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| "I don't think that the music business is some kind of
evil empire or anything, I just have an overarching
disrespect for business in general, for the forces of capitalism and how they contradict the needs of the people and the interests of art." From: Chart, 1996 "You stand up there and you don't have a persona. You just are a person." From: Spin, August 1997 "This is just my work right now, and I see humor in it.
It's funny to me, who has never really had an
"I don’t feel like the superhero that sometimes I’m made out
to be, but I guess I do feel responsible to
"It's important for all of us to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
People have always tried to rob me of my
"If you're female, with long hair and fairly cute, you get plenty of
the wrong kind of attention. If a woman
"Oftentimes people who have the power can overlook that fact,
and ignore problems that they think don't
"I don't know who could possibly claim me.
I'm not here to be a poster child. There are so many
"If you really are interested in challenging the system, I don't
think you can just become a part of it and
"People assume that there's a certain amount of calculation attributed
to everything I do now, because I'm
"My life doesn't have the typical industry
rhythms of put out the album, release the single, do the
"It seems a very one-dimensional, almost infantile approach to
life, where you're either an angry young
"I guess I never thought of it as a way to build a career even.
You know, I just thought of it as what I do,
"I've realized there is more a sense of security if you
jump in one camp or the other. The amount of
"Often the women are much more bold than the men at my shows -
which is an interested reversal of the
"I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start
naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that
"Early on I absorbed the idea that you could
make songs for a living. I came out of the folksinger
"It’s a political act to tell your story. Lotta nights
I don’t feel like telling it, but it’s one of my little
"My hair is a personal neurosis. Whenever something goes
wrong for me, I become somebody else."
"As my dyke friends say, relationships between women never
end. When you go out with someone,
"I'm sure I'm supposed to be some kind of angst-ridden pop culture
babe, but it's just not what I'm about.
"It's important for all of us to be able to poke fun at ourselves." From: New York Times, June 8, 1997 "I have a gene missing: the do-what-you're-told gene." From: React, May 26, 1997 "Inevitably I lost some control trying to bring my music outside
of America. But, anyway, capitalism is
"I feel as if the past couple of years I’ve been a little bit
astounded by the criminal justice system in this
"If I get a little too perky, just slap me." From: US Magazine, December 1996 "The perfect thing is that that little tune which I sort of wrote
except that then she changed it, it's getting
"I remember telling my parents I wanted to play guitar. I don't
know where I got that idea from because it
"I try to question everything I do. Not to play martyr, but I
have just tried so hard to do anything but sell
Thanks to http://ttinkerbelle.tripod.com/aniquotes.html for the organized quotes. |
