Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
AIMEE MANNSave me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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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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You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
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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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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