Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
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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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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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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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I don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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 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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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 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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