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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.

Aimee Mann

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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Almost Choice Drug Grew Seventies Take Think Thought
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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Again Air Crime Nightly Retrace Return Scene Step
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.
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Artist Deal Distribution Entity Label Own Record Sign Trying
All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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Back Bring Drug Enough Perfect Superhero Zero
If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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Early Low Pretty Process Standard Stop
I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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Love Stupid Think
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
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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Computer Divorce Down Generated Guy Literally Lot Music Sit Sound
The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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Always Coming Knock never One Out Punch
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.
AIMEE MANN

Addiction Discover Generate Guy Instrument Isolation Last People Perfect Record Sitting
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.
AIMEE MANN

Care Deal Flame Moth Real Sweetheart
I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Change Chord Happen Interest Kept Mind Need Probably Same Slog Tendency
I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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Everything Girl Interest Interesting Learn Scuba Surf Thought Want
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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Asking Before Believe Heard People Something Unreasonable
It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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Control Describe Easy Horrible Life Own Shame
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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Brain Drug Everybody Feeling Something Stop Understand

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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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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