I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
AIMEE MANNWhen 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Everyone’s just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it’s a huge antidote to that to have a concept album.
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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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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’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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’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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You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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