There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
AIMEE MANNBecause 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.’
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.
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Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It’s uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
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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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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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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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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 that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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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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I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
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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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