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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

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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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 don’t believe in asking people to spend $15 on something they’ve never heard before. That’s just unreasonable.
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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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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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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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Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
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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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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Back Black Burn Care Flame Game Moth Once Real See Wing
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 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

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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 wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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 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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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Anymore People Record Support Themselves

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