It’s in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I’ll write it down in case it comes up again, I’ll be certain to avoid it.
AIMEE MANNThe knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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No, the moth don’t care when he sees the flame The moth don’t care if the flame is real ‘Cause flame and moth got a sweetheart deal.
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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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Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what’s important to you, does not make you weaker.
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I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.
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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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All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.
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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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The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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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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The moth don’t care when he sees the flame He might get burned, but he’s in the game And once he’s in, he can’t go back He’ll beat his wings till he burns them black.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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