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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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 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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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 thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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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 knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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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.
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