And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
AIMEE MANNEveryone’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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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 might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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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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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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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