I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
AIMEE MANNI probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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 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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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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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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