People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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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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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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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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