I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
AIMEE MANNI 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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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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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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