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.
AIMEE MANNYou 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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 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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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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