Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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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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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I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.
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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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If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.
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I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.
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I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
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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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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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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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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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