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.’
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 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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I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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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 probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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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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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
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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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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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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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It’s more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that’s good and where the music is used in a really great way. That’s the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don’t care.
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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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