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.
AIMEE MANNSomething gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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