I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
AIMEE MANNEverybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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 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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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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It’s funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can’t even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
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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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