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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.

Aimee Mann

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 MANN

Busy Dough Drummer Limit Manger Need Play
Life 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.
AIMEE MANN

Dignity Graceful Problem Series Solve Way
In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
AIMEE MANN

Drug Everybody Good People Recovery Think Thought Time
I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
AIMEE MANN

Business Career Envy Left Lot Music Really Right Trying Way
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.
AIMEE MANN

Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
AIMEE MANN

Computer Divorce Down Generated Guy Literally Lot Music Sit Sound
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
AIMEE MANN

Brain Drug Everybody Feeling Something Stop Understand
I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
AIMEE MANN

Change Chord Happen Interest Kept Mind Need Probably Same Slog Tendency
The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
AIMEE MANN

Back Black Burn Care Flame Game Moth Once Real See Wing
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.
AIMEE MANN

Allergic Car Context Fall Listen Music Old Radio Reaction Thing Working Year
I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
AIMEE MANN

Great Music OK Some Young
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
AIMEE MANN

Bird Cage Fear Sweet Tame Terrible
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 MANN

Care Good Great Important Movie Music Record Stuff Thing Want Way
When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
AIMEE MANN

Everything Great Inspirational Mean Place Really
I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
AIMEE MANN

Become Better Happy Misread Other Some Suppose Thing
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.
AIMEE MANN

Artist Deal Distribution Entity Label Own Record Sign Trying

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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