All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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 don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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.
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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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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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 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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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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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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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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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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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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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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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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