Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
AIMEE MANNAt 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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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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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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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There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
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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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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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