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.
AIMEE MANNIt really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It’s uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.
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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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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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’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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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.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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.
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It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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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.
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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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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.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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