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.
AIMEE MANNI think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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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.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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’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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What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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