Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
AIMEE MANNIt really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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For me, there’s a fine line between telling a story that’s fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it’s bloodless, a little too fictional.
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I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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 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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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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