People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
AIMEE MANNI certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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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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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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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When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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.
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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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