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.
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.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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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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