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.
AIMEE MANNWhat’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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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