I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
AIMEE MANNSave me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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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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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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