You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
AIMEE MANNIt’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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