Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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