Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
AIMEE MANNAnybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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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 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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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’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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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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