Ani DiFranco Quotes

There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.

To me, it's exciting that women are dominating the pop charts.

I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

Most of my favorite artists are strong females.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

We opened the door for women rappers.

I'm just really inspired by women and, for me, it's really important to work with someone who can relate to the female experience, especially in music.

A lot of times when I play a show, I'm the only girl on the bill. We're a minority, for sure.

I was seeing on the ground floor that labels weren't investing in females, and it trickled upward because I was in radio with none to play. I know that I can't change today, but what I can do is work on the culture for tomorrow.

I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

Women's value has been under-recognized for far too long.

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!