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 MANNNightly 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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 don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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