I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
AIMEE MANNKnowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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 really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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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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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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