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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

Aimee Mann

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 MANN

Album Antidote Aspect Emotion Everyone Extract Feeling Music Think
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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Asking Before Believe Heard People Something Unreasonable
All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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Brain Know Need Someone Tell Want
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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Business Career Envy Left Lot Music Really Right Trying Way
I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Engage Happy Interest Think
If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Early Low Pretty Process Standard Stop
It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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Care Good Great Important Movie Music Record Stuff Thing Want Way
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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Appear Couple Gotten Idea Last Made One Past Thing Uncomfortable Year
It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Anymore Matter People Real
I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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Label Major More Own Record Selling
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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Almost Conflict Drama Emotion Everyone Extract Interesting Resolution Strive
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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Drug Everybody Good People Recovery Think Thought Time
Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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Everything Interest Know Label Object Record
All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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Back Bring Drug Enough Perfect Superhero Zero
Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Business Clearly Content Lot
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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Bird Cage Fear Sweet Tame Terrible

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