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.
AIMEE MANNNo, 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It’s uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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