Amazing 40 Selected Quotes By - Anohni
Amazing 40 Selected Quotes By - Anohnie |
Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.
— Anohni
I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity into two groups, I would sit with the women.
— Anohni
It's a feminine universe, and every person who has ever tried to convince you otherwise is doing little more than pounding on his mother's breast, enraged by the predicament he faces as a leaf, dangling from the tree of life.
— Anohni
We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands.
— Anohni
Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.
— Anohni
Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.
— Anohni
When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.
— Anohni
Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.
— Anohni
This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.
— Anohni
I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas.
— Anohni
You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.
— Anohni
We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!' Capitalism isn't a moral system.
— Anohni
Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.
— Anohni
Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate from the rest of existence is a psychosis that spins us into virulence.
— Anohni
More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.
— Anohni
Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.
— Anohni
My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee. She delivered a very unpopular and lengthy monologue about the injustice for indigenous people in North America. It was one of the greatest moments in American television.
— Anohni
America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.
— Anohni
We're all just waiting for our sugar lumps. That's how life has been structured for us.
— Anohni
The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough, you can make a fortune. Meanwhile, the working and middle classes have been hollowed out of the system.
— Anohni
We're not just polluting a river and killing a couple of top predator animals; we're eradicating the krill, the necessary algae. We're dismantling the insect and amphibian worlds. We're going for the building blocks.
— Anohni
The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy.
— Anohni
You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.
— Anohni
My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
— Anohni
People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?
— Anohni
I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that was what I was made of.
— Anohni
My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort.
— Anohni
Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.
— Anohni
I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work.
— Anohni
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.
— Anohni
Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.
— Anohni
I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
— Anohni
God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.
— Anohni
What's subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It's no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it's much more free-floating, and you don't know where you're going to find it.
— Anohni
If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.
— Anohni
As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful.
— Anohni
If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.
— Anohni
In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don't.
— Anohni
When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.
— Anohni
America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence.
— Anohni
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