-unknown

 

i'm no heroine
at least, not last time i checked
i'm too easy to roll over
i'm too easy to wreck
i just write about
what i should have done
i just sing
what i wish i could say
and hope somewhere
some woman hears my music
and it helps her through her day

-Ani Difranco

     I'm no Heroine

  album: Living in Clip

 

"Liquid night, there's a moon in my soup"

-Noe Venable

      Badlands

  album: Down Easy

 

"A word about Ani Difranco. I stand in these huge houses, watching her play, and I feel that she's not just an artist, she's a leader too-- not a leader who tells you what to do or who to be, but a leader who reminds you that you already know. "

- Noe Venable

 

"if I have learned one single thing, that thing is how precious it is, that moment when you're nearly done and it all sounds so vivid and clear-- that moment when the songs feel like windows looking out of your House. All the weird rooms and the crazy relatives. Dog by the fire, smoke from the chimney, and the chaos gods in the basement. Because they don't stay windows, really, before long you're on the outside again, looking in, and then the songs are keys that can let you back into the rooms you forgot. Maybe. If the doors are even still there, if they haven't grown over in a mass of twisted metal and wood."       -Noe Venable

"you smell like your dreams, you taste like your fears, and the sky is a heaven above"                                                                                                            -Noe Venable

"We pass a sign that says "united we stand" but the we is falling off the sign, jumbled like a dyslexic hookshot, clinging on for dear life. United we don't stand in fact, united we fall off the sign. United we fall."                                     -Noe Venable

"Like a lot of people, I dream alternatives to much of what I hate about our culture. But I hadn't taken that next step-- the step where you say, "the alternative doesn't exist unless I make it." And then the step after that where you decide, "I AM an alternative. I'll live like an alternative. I'll embody it myself, and accept all the burdens of what that means as well as the joy that comes from taking a step towards living for the things you believe in."                -Noe Venable