I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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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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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.
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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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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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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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