I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
AIMEE MANNThe knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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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 think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.
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One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.
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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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