I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
AIMEE MANNEveryone’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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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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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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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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 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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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