I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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 thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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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 don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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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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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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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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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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