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.
AIMEE MANNI think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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 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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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 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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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 not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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