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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

Aimee Mann

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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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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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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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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Engage Happy Interest Think
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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The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.
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I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.

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