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.
AIMEE MANNI wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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 really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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 envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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