I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
AIMEE MANNI’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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