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.
AIMEE MANNIf your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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