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 MANNLife is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can’t see it any other way.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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