I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.
AIMEE MANNI think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
More Aimee Mann Quotes
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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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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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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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When things are really great, it just means everything’s in it’s place.
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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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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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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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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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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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Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won’t put these futures back together.
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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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Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.
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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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