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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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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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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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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