I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
AIMEE MANNBut 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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