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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

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
People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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Anymore People Record Support Themselves
The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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Jailhouse King Lighten Load Queen Road Share Think Thinking
You drew a bird that was here, a kind of sweet chanticleer. But with a terrible fear that the cage couldn’t tame
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Bird Cage Fear Sweet Tame Terrible
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 have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.
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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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Doe Feel Important Make Trying Weak
I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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Label Major More Own Record Selling
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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Care Good Great Important Movie Music Record Stuff Thing Want Way
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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Boxing Famous Friend Gym Realy Train Trainer
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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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
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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Everything Interest Know Label Object Record
I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making 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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Almost Conflict Drama Emotion Everyone Extract Interesting Resolution Strive
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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Blood Detail Fictional Fine Line Little Story Telling Too Much Yourself
I don’t envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.
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Business Career Envy Left Lot Music Really Right Trying Way
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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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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Cadence Interest Keep Left Make Mind Need Probably Real Turn
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
I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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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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Dignity Graceful Problem Series Solve Way
You know what, the drummer is my manager. He’s busy. And I’m busy. I don’t need the dough, though. But having said that, there’s a limit to how much bad music I wanna play.
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Busy Dough Drummer Limit Manger Need Play
I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.
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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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