I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
AIMEE MANNPeople don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
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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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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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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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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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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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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