I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
AIMEE MANNI wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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 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.
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It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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If you’re an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it’s hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity.
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