I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
AIMEE MANNIf 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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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 did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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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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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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