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.
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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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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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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