I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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 not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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