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 MANNI don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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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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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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 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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It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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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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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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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