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.
AIMEE MANNAnd if that’s your sole motivation, it’s going to reflect that narcissistic greed and you’re going to hear it in the music.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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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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Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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