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.
AIMEE MANNThe knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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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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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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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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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