I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
AIMEE MANNYou 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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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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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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.
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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 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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