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.
AIMEE MANNI think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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