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 MANNThere’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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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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