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 MANNClearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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What’s interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren’t interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict – or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.
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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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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.
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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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Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
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It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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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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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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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.
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