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.
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.
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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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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.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.
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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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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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No, 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.
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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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