I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
AIMEE MANNI suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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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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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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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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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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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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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