The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
AIMEE MANNBetter take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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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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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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