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.
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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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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 easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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