I’m selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.
AIMEE MANNThe knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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It really doesn’t matter to me what people say about me anymore.
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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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Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.
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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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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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People don’t buy records anymore. I don’t know how people can support themselves.
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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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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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All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn’t be enough to bring me back to zero.
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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more 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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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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I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.
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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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At a major label you can start to feel that you’re working for them, and that any work you do, you’re never going to see any benefit.
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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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Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.
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They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.
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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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It’s easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
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It’s not easy in this phosphorescent gloom telling waking dreams apart anyhow.
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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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