Aimee Mann Quotes
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What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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People don't buy records anymore. I don't know how people can support themselves.
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I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf. Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I've gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, 'Why not? Now's the time.'
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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When things are really great, it just means everything's in it's place.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.
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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.
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I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.
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I probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it's hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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I'm really into boxing. I go to a gym and I'm friends with a trainer who's a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.
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I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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The moth don't care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he's in the game And once he's in, he can't go back He'll beat his wings till he burns them black No, the moth don't care when he sees the flame The moth don't care if the flame is real 'Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don't care if the flame is real.
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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.
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Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
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I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you're going to hear it in the music.
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If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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