Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
AIMEE MANNIt really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can’t see it any other way.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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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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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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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 really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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