Ani DiFranco Quotes

When I went to see certain shows when I was a kid, they changed my life. They made me tap into that place inside myself that I was unable to get to, so music is that tool, that bridge, and that's the kind of music I'm interested in making.

Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

I believe in music because it has the power of change.

Sometimes the music will tell you where to go. And when you find that place I believe is when you're just connecting to the feelings and the heart and the people you're with.

It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.

With good music, yes, we can bring people together because a good song will touch your soul no matter what and where it is coming from.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Before I wasn't sure what I wanted to say, but now, I have had so many different experiences that they have given me what I want to get across in my music.

It's pretty cool to see how far music can take you.

'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.

Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.

Music knits people together in some strange way. Same thing with food.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

I really believe in the power of music.

Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul.

It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it.

It's a unique thing, and it's probably the thing I love most about songs and music - their ability to connect in a human way.