There’s a lot of music that sounds like it’s literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
AIMEE MANNI might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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 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 don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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