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.
AIMEE MANNTelling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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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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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’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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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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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