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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.

Aimee Mann

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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Bird Cage Fear Sweet Tame Terrible
They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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Artist Deal Distribution Label Lot Product Sign Want
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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Benefit Feel Label Major Start Work Working
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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Care Deal Flame Moth Real Sweetheart
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.
AIMEE MANN

Boxing Famous Friend Gym Realy Train Trainer
It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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Control Describe Easy Horrible Life Own Shame
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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Busy Dough Drummer Limit Manger Need Play
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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Again Air Crime Nightly Retrace Return Scene Step
I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
AIMEE MANN

Business Career Envy Left Lot Music Really Right Trying Way
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.
AIMEE MANN

Addiction Discover Generate Guy Instrument Isolation Last People Perfect Record Sitting
I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
AIMEE MANN

Great Music OK Some Young
When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Everything Great Inspirational Mean Place Really
I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Engage Happy Interest Think
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.
AIMEE MANN

Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
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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Everything Interest Know Label Object Record
If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
AIMEE MANN

Early Low Pretty Process Standard Stop

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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