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.
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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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And if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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