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.
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.
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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 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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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In the ’70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn’t really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed.
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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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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’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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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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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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But I can’t confront the doubts I have. I can’t admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I’m condemning the future to death so it can match the past.
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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’
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